On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:47:12 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > If you rely on raid, and use spinning rust, DON'T buy cheap drives. I
> > like Seagate, and bought myself Barracudas. Big mistake. Next time
> > round, I bought Ironwolves. Hopefully that system will soon be up and
> > running, and I'll
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:47 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
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> It might be cheaper to just get three drives with 3x
> redundancy than two super-expensive ones with 2x redundancy.
>
If someone goes this direction then try to get the drives from multiple
sales channels to reduce the probability of all
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:49 AM antlists wrote:
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> On 17/03/2020 14:29, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2020-03-17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> >> Same here. The main advantage of spinning HDs are that they are cheaper
> >> to replace when they fail. I only use them when I need lots of space.
> >
>
On 17/03/2020 14:29, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2020-03-17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Same here. The main advantage of spinning HDs are that they are cheaper
to replace when they fail. I only use them when I need lots of space.
Me too. If I didn't have my desktop set up as a DVR with 5TB of
On 2020-03-17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Same here. The main advantage of spinning HDs are that they are cheaper
> to replace when they fail. I only use them when I need lots of space.
Me too. If I didn't have my desktop set up as a DVR with 5TB of
recording space, I wouldn't have any spinning
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