Personally, I'm not a big fan of RAID 5, if two disks go you're screwed. I prefer the raid 10 configuration.
I was reading about some people working on what they were calling raid 6, which is like RAID 5, only you can have it setup such that more than one disk failure and the system is still functional. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:56 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Hard drives Disks are getting cheaper - I've just recently picked up two 200Gig disks from Staples for $99 each after instant rebates - adding them to my previous two 200 Gig disks means a 387Gig RAID 10 "disk". ;^) In my case an upgrade just got out of control. I bought a new video card which meant a new power supply but my old board didn't have AGP 8x so a new board meant my two 80 gig disks would no longer work in a RAID config (they did on the highpoint controller but not on the new ALI controller) so it meant two new drives - but the 200's cost only $10 more than the 80's. I've got the Maxtor One touch as well (the firewire version) which I use for back up - I really like it, but it is pricey. Still - as far as NAS goes you can pretty easily DYI it. A slow PC (say an 800Mhz Celeron or something) can be had for less than $100 - throw in an IDE RAID card and four 200Gig discs and you might be able to squeak in 400 gig of redundant storage for less than $500. If you can snag a RAID 5 controller those four disks will give you 600Gig. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:137057 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
