## Logical drive examples

### Example 1

The array consists of three 1 GB drives. You assign RAID level-0 , which uses all the drives in the array with no redundant or parity storage; then, you type 1000. The logical drive will actually only use 999 MB because it is the number closest to and lower than 1000 that is divisible by 3.

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### Example 2

The array consists of three 1 GB drives. You assign RAID level-1 , which provides disk mirroring and stripes data across all drives in the array. Because the data is mirrored, the capacity of the logical drive is 50% of the physical capacity of the hard disk drives grouped in the array. If you type 1000, the physical capacity used is 2000 MB, twice that of the logical drive size. The number that is closest to and lower than 2000 that is divisible by 3 is 1998, which will be the actual space used. The logical drive size is 999 MB, which is 50% of the physical capacity.

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### Example 3

The array consists of three 1 GB drives and you assign RAID level-5 . Data is striped across all three drives in the array, but the space equivalent to that of one drive is used for redundant storage. Therefore, if you type 1000, the number 1000 remains in the Size (MB) field because it is divisible by 2 (drives), which is the space available for data. The physical capacity used is 1500 MB.