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Originally Posted by Phoenix32
The WD RE 250 GB drives would be a great choice for this unit. A little more money, but drives that are worth it IMO. BTW, it would be less than 600 GB. 320 GB drives format to a little under 300 GB as I recall (too many numbers to remember them all). Those WD RE drives would give him right at 701 GB formatted and in RAID 5.
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Soo... I almost have the greediness out of my system. Thank you both for your replies.
Since the system formats the 320 drives at a little less than 300 gig each, and then minus one more for parity, technically would I still be under the 1TB limit if I were to purchase 4 320gig drives and put them in a raid 5? Or does the snap server calculate the total storage before it takes into account the formated space and parity?
By my calculations on previous 320gig drives, they format out to be 298gig.
So, 298gig x 4 = 1.192TB - 298gig (parity) = 894gig in a raid 5.
$74.99 x 4 = $299.96
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Also, my 250gig drives format out to be 231gig.
So, 231gig x 4 = 924gig - 231gig (parity) = 693gig in a raid 5.
$59.99 x 4 = $239.96
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There is 200gig difference, I guess I have to ask myself is it worth $60. And even before I can answer that, if it will even work with my above scenario.
Set me straight Phoenix
