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February 24th, 2012 21:00

recently i got a problem

when raid5 disk array allocate all disks to spA,if one disk fail,how can manage the same capacity

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February 25th, 2012 04:00

Hi Narayan

A raid5 raidgroup allocates a parity drive for itself. for eg if you create a r5 raidgroup of 5 drives you would get usable space of 4 drives i.e. N-1. so whenever theirs a single drive fault the hot spare kicks in to rebuild the data on to the spare drive. hope this answers ur query

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