On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:00 PM, diane wrote:
A few weeks ago we talked about larger drives and SATA cards in my G4
1.42DP, 2gb ram
I have a 120gb in there now and was thinking about 2 500's (to mirror
or something). I was going to go to SATA for upwards compatibility.
The question is,
On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:00 PM, diane wrote:
repost with different subject. I find it funny that sometimes a
simple topic may bring days of replies yet another zilch! :) )
A few weeks ago we talked about larger drives and SATA cards in my G4
1.42DP, 2gb ram
I have a 120gb in there now
On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:00 AM, diane wrote:
I have a 120gb in there now and was thinking about 2 500's (to mirror
or something). I was going to go to SATA for upwards compatibility.
The question is, just how much will this slow the machine down?
I've put four 500 GB drives in such a machine,
At 2:01 PM -0400 9/23/08, Charles Davis wrote:
Diane;
Your thoughts trouble me, because you are mixing two, only
peripherally related things.
The 'Mirroring', provides some 'convenience' benefits, but almost
nothing Re: 'Backup Strategy'.
The NAS, is also a 'convenience' thing only.
The
At 1:27 PM -0400 9/23/08, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:00 PM, diane wrote:
Not having experience with mirroring on a day to day machine (but all
my servers have mirrored drives) this is just an fairly educated guess.
First of all, a single 500GB (or larger) SATA drive on a sata
On Sep 23, 2008, at 6:44 PM, diane wrote:
At 2:01 PM -0400 9/23/08, Charles Davis wrote:
Diane;
Your thoughts trouble me, because you are mixing two, only
peripherally related things.
The 'Mirroring', provides some 'convenience' benefits, but almost
nothing Re: 'Backup Strategy'.
At 7:10 PM -0400 9/23/08, Charles Davis wrote:
Externals are good. And there does need to be more than one External.
Actually, the '3 Sets' rule (not previously stated as a Rule' would
fit here also. Maybe some 'Thumb Drives' for groups of Pix? or other
'Data' type files.
Well first there was
