HugoStiglitz Distinguished Sep 23, 2011 1,587 0 20,160 Mar 21, 2012 #2 A. You cannot setup Raid 5 with only 2 HDD's, you need a minimum of 3 HDDs to do this. Usable space with 3x 2gb HDD's would be ~4gb (you loose the total of 1 drive to parity) Upvote 0 Downvote
A. You cannot setup Raid 5 with only 2 HDD's, you need a minimum of 3 HDDs to do this. Usable space with 3x 2gb HDD's would be ~4gb (you loose the total of 1 drive to parity)
duxducis Distinguished Sep 24, 2007 489 0 18,860 Mar 21, 2012 #3 with 2TB drives 2x with mirror =1800GB __________ 3x =3600GB 4x =5400GB ~total usable after all waste 3x is not as efficient as 4 as well, Upvote 0 Downvote
with 2TB drives 2x with mirror =1800GB __________ 3x =3600GB 4x =5400GB ~total usable after all waste 3x is not as efficient as 4 as well,