[Gllug] cheap disk source

tid td at bloogaloo.co.uk
Sun Jul 22 20:21:52 UTC 2007


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.

tid

On 22/07/07, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
>
> Ian Norton-Badrul wrote:
> > Hi Guys n Gals,
> >
> > I'm pricing up bits to build myself a new RAID array for my
> 'in-the-garage'
> > server, so far I figure that I can get four 320Gb disks for about 170
> quid form
> > ebuyer, Anyone know of any better?
>
> Yes, pretty much anything bought from any other supplier.  Google
> "ebuyer horror stories".
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