On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:12 pm, Nick wrote: > Running with 1 disk down the array will function at 100% as all the data > is still available because of the parity info stored on the two good > disks. The problem is with one disk down you have absolutely no > redundancy. If one of the other disks failed the data would be lost for > ever. If you replace the dead disk you can then start rebuilding the > array so that you get your redundancy back. > > this page explains it a lot better than i can > http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps2q03_luse?c=u >s&l=en&s=corp Thank you very much Nick. It really gives me a clear understanding. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 19:22:55 up 10:47, 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org