[Nottingham] Next Meeting & CFC & general

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Wed Nov 24 01:15:12 GMT 2004


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Martin wrote:

| I've recently had two disk crashes on various systems. One disk could be
| excused after having been thrashed for 15000 hours. The other newish
| drive died after a windows user accidentally did a drag'n'drop on 90GB
| or so of small files across the same disk.

For general interest then, storage is now so cheap that we're sticking
together another general purpose AMD64 box with 0.5TB usable RAID5 and
two hotspare swappable disks for well under 1K. It's probably worth a
talk on RAID and LVM2 at some point.

Jon.
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