[Ham-Computers] RE: Multiple drives, is there a way to . . .

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Actually, the least risky approach, although not the cheapest unless you look 
around for slightly older but unused hardware in surplus, would be an 
outboard box running RAID5 with hot-swap capability and holding say ten drives.  Buy 
about twelve of the same drives on sale somewhere and configure the box with 
eight active, one parity and one standby drives.  :-)

In a message dated 2/7/2008 10:31:47 AM Central Standard Time, 
dfischer at usol.com writes: 
> Why not just play it safe, simple and efficient and buy a larger HD to 
> begin 
> with? Since Phil is building a huge OTR folder his need for space is not 
> going to end here! He has already gone beyond what he swore was as "big as 
> it was going to get" twice already.
> 
> Better yet, why not a second minimal machine and network it to his main 
> computer and put all of HD he already has in that machine?
> 
> Although what you suggest may work Aaron, would it not be less risky to just 
> 
> buy a larger drive?
> 
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
> dfischer at usol.com
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
> To: "I>Ham-Computers" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:29 PM
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: Multiple drives, is there a way to . . .
> 
> 
> >Hi Phil (et al),
> >
> >Yes, it is possible to do what you're describing via RAID-0 (RAID zero). 
> >RAID-0 is truly a misnomer as there is no redundancy, but it's a RAID form 
> >not the less.  Basically, RAID-0 is spanning - the data "spans" across the 
> >drives, so if you have two 200GB drives, the RAID-0 volume will show up as 
> >a single 400GB volume.  Three 200GB drives will make a 600GB RAID-0 volume 
> >and so on.  RAID-0 is the fastest of all RAID types as there is no 
> >checksum calculations nor redundant writes.
> >

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