On 04/07/2009 15:59, Bill Davidsen wrote:

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> Leslie Rhorer wrote:

>>  The 1.5T drives are less than 1.5 times bigger than the 1T

>> drives, so I could not replace a 3 drive 1T triplet with a pair of 1.5T

>> drives.

>

> That last sentence is important! If this is a standard, then it would

> seem to be actually intended to deceive the consumer. If there is to be

> a standard for 1, 1.5, and 2, they really should have some sensible

> relationship in size.

>

> That said, I confess that I use partitions and leave a little breathing

> room on my drives when building a raid array.

I think I might take to doing that too, making my partitions/arrays

multiples of 1,000,000,000 bytes (a drive maker's 1GB) where possible,

just to be sure :-)
Cheers,
John.
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