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 Using RAID 5 with 3-18.2 GB Harddrives, what disk space is available?
Disk space, RAID, RAID 5, Windows Server 2003
Using RAID 5 with 3-18.2 GB Harddrives, what disk space is available?

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Windows 2003 Server
ASKED: March 24, 2010  3:40 PM
UPDATED: March 26, 2010  1:33 PM
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RAID 5 is basically an N-1, so you get access to two of the drives. Or about 36 GB of usable disk space Correct answer is 33.89 GB - parity is distributed on all disks ant takes some space.
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yeah its about 34 gb…a way for calculation is this. raid 5 takes away 1 hdd, so you have 2 left, jz multiply it by 2 and minus some of your NTFS files or etc and you will get the figure..

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