Re: 283GB Drives in a set of 139GB Disks.. -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: 283GB Drives in a set of 139GB Disks..
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:51:32 -0400
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Agreed that on other platforms this is basically normal and expected behavior. On IBM i it did not used to be possible and I 'assumed' it still was not. Perhaps this changed with the move to SAS??

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 4/27/2014 5:44 AM, Wilson Jonathan wrote:

That's fairly standard for raid, the device with the least amount of
storage is the maximum unit size of all members of the raid array.

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