On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:12:00AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:11:33PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote: > > So, I'm looking at some new hard drives to increase my storage capacity > > and I'm having trouble deciding if I should raid 1 or not. > > Basically my options for the price are 2x250GB Sata hardware raid or a > > single 400 or 500 GB. It's seems fairly straightforward to setup > > hardware raids, and I've done it before with linux are there any gotchas > > anyone can think of or any disadvantages to what I'm thinking. With 2 > > drives I'll still have 1 Sata port open on my Mobo for something else > > later. For that matter should I worry that much, and just get a single > > big drive. At this point the basic issue is that my digital photography > > and digital music are competing for what space I have left and I don't > > have a backup of either. > > > > Often what kills one drive can kill another. It seems today that drives > rarely fail if they have the proper running conditions. I prefer storage > on another machine or something detached. Here are some options I would > consider. > > The NSLU2 runs linux and lots of people hack it! > http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/73de/ > > http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
Not to mention backing up your GNU/Linux box. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/BackupYourLinuxBox -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
