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RAID calculator

RAID6 has two drive redundancy, so for a five drive array the capacity is nominally 3x drive size, less some internal OS overhead. So 5 x 2TB in RAID6 should yield a little under 6TB. Not sure where I got that number back in Jan, which is clearly off.

Here's a RAID calculator:



. . . in theory, practice and theory are the same; in practice, they are different . . .



Edits: 10/08/23

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