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From: KThorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: Multiple harddrives seen as one?
>Gosh! This is a long thread and no answer. I use four SCSI drives with a
>1.5Gb partition on each striped (Raid 0) to give a single volume of 6Gb. I
>could have concatenated them using Raid 1 instead, but striping on SCSI
>makes it go like something very fast indeed!
RAID 1 isn't concatenation, it's mirroring.
With RAID 1, you'd have a total of 3Gb of space on what would appear to be
two drives, but if a drive failed you'd lose no data.
Also, writes would take twice as long.
Concatenation doesn't have a RAID level, it's not part of RAID.
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