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HopeHoops

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16. Ah, got it. As for SSD, the mini came pre-installed with Linux.

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 10:17 AM

Dec 2011

The "drive" is more than sufficient for that machine, like 24GB. I paid under $500 for it. It's light weight and the battery lasts almost six hours under heavy load.

It helps to configure the RAID array so each volume has a different purpose. Size has certainly changed!!! The array I had the most experience with was a 30 disk Sun array - it was a big deal when they came out with one that could use 4 GB drives instead of 2GB drives.

I also hooked up a 1/4TB array that was in a case larger than a refrigerator! At the time, that was a shitload of storage. Things change. Just in this room I've got about 15 TB between my development box/server, my laptop, and all the external drives (some on 24x7, others as needed). And I remember the wonder of moving from 13 sector to 16 sector floppies on the Apple II. Damn we use a lot of storage space now!

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Running a RAID5 array with 2 SSD's and a mechanical hard drive under XP possible ? [View all] steve2470 Dec 2011 OP

Not sure, but I use an external NAS to handle my RAID5 configuration. n/t Dawgs Dec 2011 #1

I think a lot of machines don't like this Renew Deal Dec 2011 #2

Depends on the goal... Dead_Parrot Dec 2011 #3

Thank you for the link and your time. steve2470 Dec 2011 #4

a raid5 needs a minimum of three disks foo_bar Dec 2011 #5

ah... Dead_Parrot Dec 2011 #6

thanks for your help so far, my bad about RAID5, now...... steve2470 Dec 2011 #7

The external is probably USB2 and an XP box is likely to only handle USB1. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #8

Spot on again. wandy Dec 2011 #10

That's not technically true. All of the PARTITIONS must be identical. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #11

Yes. Yes. Sorry, showing my age. wandy Jan 2012 #19

Yeah, I remember a certain 300mb beer cooler with 12 platters. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #20

Sorry, you can't DissedByBush Dec 2011 #9

Mirroring is best with two drives. Yeah, half the space, but safe. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #12

I only wish I could afford the setup at work DissedByBush Dec 2011 #13

10K? HopeHoops Dec 2011 #14

10,000 RPM DissedByBush Dec 2011 #15

Ah, got it. As for SSD, the mini came pre-installed with Linux. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #16

We definitely do store a lot now DissedByBush Dec 2011 #17

A SHITload. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #18