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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
The drobo looks good. I like the idea of swapping in new drives of unmatched capacity whenever you see a good deal on bare drives.
Curious, like typical raid configurations will the array's capacity be limited to a multiple of the smallest capacity drive?

Meaning if you have 5 2 gb drives you get 10 gb (forgetting parity etc...) but if you have 4 2 gb drives and 1 1 gb drive get only 5 gb losing the other 4.

The Drobo has a way to use max capacity of all drives so in 2nd scenario you have 9 gb?

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