Quote:
Originally Posted by metal_geek
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?
Thanks.