[Gllug] cheap disk source

[Anthony Newman]

tid wrote:
> I may be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here, but why not
> factor in the price of a spare PSU/RAID controller & disk at the same
> time. This is borne out of a number of experiences where management
> thought that RAID=100%uptime.


My $0.02 says that using hardware RAID at home is a waste of money
unless you desperately need zero downtime and/or easy hot-swapping.

The likelihood of being unable to replace cheap end-of-line ATA disks of
the same size in 2 years when they start failing is probably more
concerning.


Ant
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