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mattjax05
Sep 20, 2012Aspirant
Xraid 5 Parity and Stripping how much capacity?
I've been trying to get my head round this one. Take a 4 drive nas for instance with four 500gb drives. With xraid5 the volume availanle is 1500gb. That's where I'm stumped and I know it's because of ...
StephenB
Sep 20, 2012Guru - Experienced User
Exactly!
PapaBear wrote: ...I think that most of the non-technical types assumed as I did that the parity block was somehow a copy, what you have pointed out is that it is not, it is a separately created data block that permits a missing data block to be recreated...
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