[Novalug] hard drive capacities

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Mon Jul 9 16:56:47 EDT 2007


i don't disagree with any of these comments.  i didn't buy it, but
someone may find it useful.

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:51:23PM -0400, William Warren wrote:
> yes the higher number of spindles increases your failure rate.
> 
> Jason wrote:
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> >David Zakar wrote:
> >>Looking at the enclosure makes me think that it's a pair of 500gb drives 
> >>in
> >>RAID 0. That means double your failure rate.
> >I was just going to say that.  You're better off buying a couple of
> >SATA drives (I won't buy anything but Seagate now because of their 5
> >year warranty) and setting them up in a RAID.  I recently saw 500GB
> >drives for under $100 on one of the bargain hunter sites
> >(dealuniversity.com, passwird.com, etc) so buy three, RAID5 'em and
> >you'll have your TB and redundancy when (not if) one of fails.  Of
> >course the more drives you buy the smaller your percentage of RAID
> >overhead.
> >
> >- -Jason
> >
> >- --
> >   --- There are no absolute statements.  I'm very probably wrong. ---
> >"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
> >limits."
> >                                        - Albert Einstein
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