Re: Mass Storage Solutions
By: Access Denied to Amcleod on Fri Dec 24 2010 08:31 pm
> External drives?
Yeh, I've got a friend who has adopted that approach. He has stacks of
external USB drives (you could go with another interface, like eSATA or
something if you wanted to). He's constantly bitching about the fact that he
can't find what he wants because he doesn't remember what drive is where or
which is which.
I like the idea that I have some redundancy that will help in the event of a
disk failure. Also, my data is all available at any time , which is good
because I do dig through it. It's all in one big partition (thanks to LVM) and
not here, there and everywhere, on a number of separate partitions, which
aren't all online, and don't even have consistent pmount-points!
I did find an external chassis unit that will carry 12 SATA drives (expands to
20) and connects to a 4x pcie card in your machine with a 6' cable. It costs
over a grand, though, and that's before you buy any drives...
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