Re: Mass Storage Solutions
By: Poindexter Fortran to Amcleod on Sun Dec 26 2010 07:55 am
> I'm waiting for the right price on a 2x eSATA enclosure that does RAID 1 - I
> figure 1TB of mirrored space would suit me for some time, considering I'm
> running on 2x320 now...
I'm currently running 5x 2Tb drives in RAID5, so I've got ~8Tb of space online.
2Tb is the sweet-spot right now, at about 90 bucks. In comparison, 3Tb drives
are around $250.
Personally, I don't like racks, enclosures or disk cards that do RAID
independently. If the controller fails and you can't locate a compatible
replacement, your data is stuck on the drives and you have no way of getting it
off. I use Linux's md driver. No (potentially) irreplacible hardware to fail.
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