1 processor vs. 2

[Malcolm Kay]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:09, Chuck McManis wrote:
> At 05:53 AM 3/3/2004, Danny Pansters wrote:
> >RAID5 on 3 disks? That's useless.
>
> Its only mostly useless. You can't mirror (RAID-1) three drives, so if you
> want some resiliency you can use RAID-5 and give up one disk to parity and
> get two disks worth of data.

You can certainly run RAID-1 across 3 disks leading to three copies of data and
still a pretty solid system after one goes down. However I'm not sure if it is
valid to call it a mirror system ;-)

Malcolm

> You could even do RAID4 on three disks. 'course 4 disks is generally the
> minimum most people talk about, but its not completely useless.
>
> --Chuck
>
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