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With RAID 5, your total capacity is X(n - 1), where X is the drive capacity and n is the number of drives. One drive's worth of data is dedicated to parity info. The good news is that the more drives you have in the array, the less overall space is used for parity. Still, no matter how many you have, you still can't lose 2 drives simultaneously without the whole array going down.
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Please understand, I say this with the greatest respect and affection...
You guys are geeks. 
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< taking a bow >
I always take that as a compliment.
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That stopped being an insult when all the geeks of the 80's became billionaires.
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Geek is fine...that's the proper terminology.
As for the RAID5, I believe whoever it was was saying they could lose two drives because of the hotspare. This is not technically true though. Even with the hotspare, the data needs to be rebuilt onto the hotspare drive before a drive can fail again.
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...which is precisely why I said In reply to:
and then an additional drive failure in the data array (after the hotspare kicked in)
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Yes, I know that...
:-P
However, I'm dealing with quite a bit of data here, and with the particular array that my client has, 6 drives + 1 hotspare is the only way to go. Sure, you can have 2 sets of 6 drives + 1 hotspare, but the client wants to use those sets with separate servers due to performance issues (I'll have to do research on what the saturation levels can be) Therefore, I would have to use 2 drives for the mirror, and 4 drives for the RAID5, resulting in approximately 170 GB wasted on the mirrored drives and a total storage capacity of the RAID5 at, say, 500 GB.
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What was my point, anyway? That actually doesn't sound too bad...
And yes, I am a geek. Peter's just trying to be geekier than thou. And I, naturally, am trying to out-geek him.
I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
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How can you out-geek me without knowing your way around Cisco IOS? Hmmm??? < poke > < poke >
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I still know more UNIX than you.
I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
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And I'm on staff for one of the premier computer enthusiast websites on the planet which I think out-geeks you both.
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