Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com): > I was going to go with RAID 1 using 2 TB drives. Got a line on 2TB > externals with longer than 1 year warranties (since buying drives > themselves comes with 3). At a cost difference of $150(Sheeva is about > $100, the ReadyNAS is $250) I don't see myself saving much buying cases > and drives.
As I just mentioned, my server's running a degraded RAID1 pair at the moment (failed drive), which is why I picked up a 2 TB external USB/Firewire thing as a bandaid. (It makes ensuring that I've made safety copies of key filesystems frequently really easy.) http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2010-June/005493.html http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2010-June/005495.html http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2010-June/005510.html The thing is a Hitachi HSD2000 'SimpleDrive'; $150, 1yr warranty. I was/am really very short on time for screwing around with hardware, so the first simple, realiable-tech solution I could find at Microcenter won. (I'm not posting it to claim it's great or to recommend it, just to say that it solved a problem of the moment. The data-saving solution you actually do that works wins over the better solution that you never get to.) > That would also be 3 power plugs instead of one.... Single points of failure are bad. Power strips or PDUs with master switches on them are cheap. (FWIW, the Hitachi spins down and shuts off if the attached host powers off.) > What do you think about the RAID case for $50 I posted in the other part > of the thread? Seems to be the same as buying 2 reliable single drive cases? Nope. SPoF. And why are you calling that a 'RAID case'? Looks like a JBoD to me. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
