<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 28-Apr-09, at 2:48 AM, James Bensley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">You haven't said how large you knew drive (sdc) is? Is it 500GBs or<br>1000? If for example it was 1000, you would need to buy another 1000GB<br>drive, and set up a second mirror with the two new drives. So now you<br>have two 1TB mirrors and stripe across them<br>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_10_.28RAID_1.2B0.29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_10_.28RAID_1.2B0.29</a>)<br>giving you 2TB of space that is mirrored also for redundancy (then you<br>would have the redundancy of mirroring plus the speed of striping, or<br>near there).</span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Sorry about that, it was another 1 TB drive. I forgot to include that detail....</div><div><br></div><div>d</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>