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Raid 5 and Number of Drives

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I am setting up new servers and I was reading the release notes on the 5.1 U1 and it gave examples of supported raid.

 

I was planning on installing 8 1TB drives and setting them up RAID 5.  The release notes says that they support the following examples.  It says 7 1TB drives in that note.

 

Is this just an example or if I use 8 drives will my server explode?  It just seems weird that I can use 7 but not 8 rather than a set rule of max number drives in a particular RAID type statement.

 

Anyone have any insight into this or do I have to burn a support call.

 



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