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A RAID 5 configuration utilizes three or more hard drives and stripes the data across them, much like RAID 0. The difference is that parity information is striped across the drives as well, so if you lose any one drive the information can be reconstructed from the parity information. For example, with three drives the first stripe is data (on drive 1), data (on drive 2), parity (on drive 3); then data, parity, data; then
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RAID 5 - In June or July,http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-sbc10jun10,1,4839600.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-businessThe firm is ordered to cease its practice of refusing to provide theservice to people who switch phone carriers.By James S. Granelli, Times Staff WriterI live in Illinois, and SBC won't provide DSL unless you have them asa local carrier. Does anyone know what the above decision means forthe DSL subscribers in Illinois?Kevin[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am not positive about this but Iheard two versions: version one says SBC claims the ruling onlyapplies to people in California, and version two says SBC has notobeyed the ruling at all and has not decided if/when/how to appeal.I know here in Kansas, SBC has taken the same posture of using DSLas their hostage or trump card to keep people on their lousy andexpensive phone service. When people challenge them on that (atleast around here) SBC's response is "well, you could always sueus like happened in California." Of course SBC knows full well noone in their right mind is going to bother with that expense. Duane,(owner of Prairie Stream Communications and TerraWorld [our localISP]) simply laughs and tells folks, "let me handle your phoneservice, and Mike Flood (Cable One local manager) will handle yourhigh speed internet. So what's the big problem?" The problem ispeople who are unfamiliar with telling Traditional Bell to shoveoff are afraid they will 'get in trouble' doing that bypass. Kevin,have you considered dumping DSL and SBC for far better service froma cable provider? PAT]
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