Nvidia ForceWare Software User's Manual page 110

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Using the NVIDIA MediaShield RAID Management Utility
In this example, we are adding one disk (which is the upper disk) to the new three disk
RAID 5 array. So, select the first disk and click Next and the following screen shot will
appear:
Figure 3.105
8 Click Finish then click on the newly created three disk striped array and the following
screen shot will appear:
Figure 3.106
Note: As you can see from the above screen shot, only 2/3 of the disk space is actually
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Completing the NVIDIA Convert Array Wizard Screen
New RAID Array
used by RAID 5 since 1/3 of the disk space is used for to store parity information.
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