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RAID overhead capacity in netapp filer

MOHAN1985
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Hi,

What is the RAID overhead capacity for the raid groups supported in a netapp filer?

Thanks,

Mohan

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RAMACHANDRA_CBRANDS
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Data Ontap supports two type of RG raid4 and raidDP.

raid4 has single dedicated parity disk (min 2 disk)

raidDP has dual dedicated parity disk (min 3 disk)

Believe now you can calculate overhead capacity.

MOHAN1985
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Thanks for your reply.

Wanted to know, if there is a formula that be used to calculate this overhead capacity?.

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