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Two Questions regarding stripes sets
If you use 3 hard drives to create a stripe set and each hard drive is 20 GB per hard drive, then is your stripe set volume size 20 GB or 60 GB?
Also, do the hard drives, in a stripe set, have to be the same size or can they be different sizes?
by alpha-male
Tom's Hardware has a fantastic primer on Raid Arrays and Stripe Sets (Raid-0). Here's the URL:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/00q1/000329/fastrak66-01.html
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In a nutshell, the volume size in your example is 60gb and you *should* use same sized drives (otherwise you'll waste space).
by northwood
by avswamy
firstly what is your requirement. is u want to create a spanned volume orstripped volume or creating a mirror volume or raid5 volume.
when ever u are trying for stripe set with parity(raid5)fault tolerence will be there, then the hard disk spacelost is 30%.
as per ur setup ur having 3 20 gb hdd's so u can set 10 gb partition in each hdd for raid5 so total of 30 gb will be avialable for raid5 remaining 10 gb for os. in your raid5 setup u can use 20 gb only remaingin for fault tolenrence.
usually we use this for data base, to hold the data.
i hope this will help u.
by northwood
by northwood
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