Originally Posted by JamesNT
RAID 5 does not use one drive for parity. The parity stripe is across all drives.

JamesNT


True. I guess the more appropriate response is that parity data consumes a capacity which is equal to the smallest drive in the array. For sake of simplicity, I just say subtract 1 drive to make the calculations simpler.

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