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Old 09-15-2008, 04:11 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by metal_geek View Post
Raid 1 gets you HD space equal to the Smallest drive in the pair. The 2 HD's have excatly the same files on them at all times, so in raid 1 you can't use any space by compressing on the "other" drive because as far as the system is concearned there is no "other" drive because they are excatly the same..
So with 2 500 gb drives I would only be adding 500gb, right? But if I just did backups, could I get more storage out of the 2 drives but still have both protected? Does my question make any sense?

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