Yep, That is what I'm talking about, and the rest is because the SAN held back 2 drives per container as hot spares, with a total of 3 containers. Our current needs are only 1TB and the SAN can hold another controller, so we should be fine. It is an ATABeast btw, http://www.atadisk.com/ -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:17 AM To: TCLUG List Subject: RE: [tclug-list] largest partition on fc3? On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Chris Smith wrote: > With spare drives and so on, the 7TB actually turned out to be 5TiB. > You really start to notice the innacuraccy of the common measurement > vs SI at that size. Are you referring to this?: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html kibi 1.0240e+03 mebi 1.0486e+06 gibi 1.0737e+09 tebi 1.0995e+12 pebi 1.1259e+15 exbi 1.1529e+18 It should only throw you off by 10% at the level of 1 TB. Maybe they were rounding up. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list