> Unless I'm missing something than according to raid specs it doesn't > mater how many disks are in raid5 array, you just need one additional > disk for checksums, so in case of 6 spindle array you can create raid5 > that will operate according to your schema (it actually will be two > raid5 arrays) or you can create one raid5 array that will use 5 disks > for data and one disk for checksums. > > Please, correct me if I'm wrong. > It sounds to me like you are describing a RAID volume with dedicated parity. If so, that is RAID 3. RAID 5 has distributed parity. RAID 1+0 has no parity. ;) Jared -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/