On 28 March 2018 at 02:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Well outside my realm of expertise (as if I had a realm!), . . . > > How many drives would you need, to be able to set up a RAID, or hot > swappable RAUD (Redundant Array of Unreliable Drives), that could give > decent reliability with such drives?
For what little it's worth, and little relevance, I had a hardware RAID of 6 × 80GB UltraIDE drives that ran faultlessly for several years. Not full-time, to be fair, but surviving multiple power cycles. In an old HP Proliant ML110 G1 -- space-heater Pentium 4 version -- with only about 2GB of RAM (because it used some kind of weird expensive ECC RAM) and a hacked copy of Windows Server 2008. It was a box made from free leftovers and proved to be one of my most reliable workhorse PCs ever. Figures, really. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053