[Gllug] cheap disk source

[Ian Norton-Badrul]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 09:29:07PM +0100, Anthony Newman wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

Well, my current drives havnt failed, the main reasons for me upgrading are :-

* array is full
* machine chassis is full
* pata channels are full
* psu has no spare connectors
* it's running on a duron 800...

So I'm building (re-building) another machine that will hold the original array
and the new array using sata, I should be able to then migrate off the old from
the old array to the new, then when use up my pata channels again with some
bigger disks (if i can get them).

I like to have hardware raid at work, but for home, yes it's overkill :-)

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Ian Norton-Badrul

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