On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:52:52 -0800 Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Yeah, I always wondered about the Inexpensive part when it's typically > used with $1000 SCSI drives :-) Makes more sense if it was intended > for IDE at first. Originally (as per the Berkeley geekz), RAID stood for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. However, it's now more commonly defined as Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Prolly because SCSI is used more often, and they ain't "inexpensive" ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You can't take it with you -- especially when crossing a state line.
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