RAID-0 so small?

[technogeeky]

Hey folks,

I just setup a RAID-0 system with my Abit IT7 onboard HPT controller.

It seems, however, that the drive is only 223GB instead of ~ 320GB (there are two 120GB drives).

What gives?

I had a 64k size thing 🙂

 

[technogeeky]

Originally posted by: technogeeky
Hey folks,

I just setup a RAID-0 system with my Abit IT7 onboard HPT controller.

It seems, however, that the drive is only 223GB instead of ~ 320GB (there are two 120GB drives).

What gives?

I had a 64k size thing 🙂

Wow.

I'm an idiot without sleep. 2x 120 = 240. 223 is not bad for that.

Keep on! 🙂

 

[technogeeky]

Ok. So I am an idiot.

But why am I loosing 17GB?

If I make the stripe size 512 instead of 64, would that help?

-tg

 

[Electrode]

Sounds like the conversion from base-2 to base-10. Read this FAQ.

Block sizes mainly affect performance, and have little or no impact on the size of the array.

 

[Deeko]

some of us can't add 😉 you have 240,000,000,000 bytes, which is 223GB.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

hd companies use 1000b=1kb
when its really 1024b=1kb

so 240,000,000,000 / (1024)^3 =223.5GB