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Thread ID: 111655 2010-08-05 22:36:00 Would like opinions for storage device nedkelly (9059) Press F1
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1124954 2010-08-27 02:22:00 Hmm thought RAID4 was the one where paritiy was stored on a single drive? nedkelly (9059)
1124955 2010-08-27 03:10:00 Hmm thought RAID4 was the one where paritiy was stored on a single drive?


Raid 4?...only Netapp implements 4!...Most onboard or addon sata cards only do 1,0,5 or 10!
en.wikipedia.org
SolMiester (139)
1124956 2010-08-27 23:54:00 en.wikipedia.org
Raid 5 distributes parity

A RAID 5 uses block-level striping with parity data distributed across all member disks.
nedkelly (9059)
1124957 2010-08-28 00:30:00 en.wikipedia.org
Raid 5 distributes parity

Yeah thats right, end effect is you lose a drive for parity...guess i could of explained it better!
SolMiester (139)
1124958 2010-08-28 22:22:00 Oh well thanks for this, RAID5 it is then nedkelly (9059)
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