raid 5?

[just a noob]

ok, so my question is with raid 5, and 1tb size drive disks, how many terabytes would i see if i used 3 of them, would i see only 2 tb, or the full three?

 

[brian]

you would see 2 because raid 5 backs up all the files.

 

[just a noob]

so, your saying if i had 4 of the 1tb's i would be able to see 3 tb's?

 

[brian]

yes, the equ. is s * (n - 1)/n

s being space
n being number of drives

 

[just a noob]

cool, thanks and how do i make a partition? because im thinking about doing a tri boot with xp/vista/osx

 

[tyttebøvs]

When you have built the array, and installed the raid driver, you partition and format like you have always done. Seen from the software, it is just one big drive.