Re: Adding a smaller drive

[John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>]

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