Comments on: Open-box surgery

By: Adam Hays

Adam Hays — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:50:54 +0000

Man thats totaly insane. The most I have ever had or needed in that matter was 2 hard drives. I am about to drop some money on a usb hard drive. I would use that all the time. We use them alot with debate to share ev, so I’m going to get one asap.

By: Arcanius

Arcanius — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:40:00 +0000

I would love to use RAID 5, but as Dan said, my bios doesn’t support it. Besides, just think of how fast the machine will boot. After a few crashes, though, I’m sure I’ll be converted to 10 or something like that. But I figure, RAID 0 across four disks is something I should experience at least once inmy life.

By: Dan Marsh

Dan Marsh — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:48:37 +0000

Very few EIDE based raid controllers support raid-5. A lot of serial-ata controllers are starting to support it, though.

By: Dan Moretti

Dan Moretti — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:33:06 +0000

CS was good.

By: nordsieck

nordsieck — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:54:44 +0000

With 4 drives, it seems like a perfect situation for raid 10, but you might like raid 5 better (more usable storage space).

By: Dan Marsh

Dan Marsh — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 08:04:30 +0000

Better get used to reinstalling. A four drive stripe won’t last long given individual hard disk failure rates. I would recommend you get a single BIG drive and image your array every once in a while…