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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM, smallnow <smallnow@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Get the best of both worlds with raid 5. |
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> Personally, I do raid 0 and I agree with you on raid redundancy not being |
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> very useful. Backup ftw. I cycle out my hard drives every year or two and |
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> make the old ones be backups, I've only ever had the backups die. |
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> - Ian |
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Hmm. I grew up with very expensive hard drives, and never thought of this. |
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Time to rethink. |
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My first Unix hard drive replacement was a 20MB drive replacing 10MB and |
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it cost $600 (1985 dollars) plus the old drive. Circa 1985. You didn't do that |
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too often on a home system. Now that I'm seeing 1,000,000 MB eSATAs for |
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under $100 this is starting to make sense. |
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Thanks for the idea. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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