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DissedByBush

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17. We definitely do store a lot now

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 11:28 AM

Dec 2011

We've mostly moved off the local RAIDs and onto EMC now. I have no idea what they're holding, but it's a few 42U racks full of drives 500 GB and up. At home I just have a few externals. I'm sure I'll eventually build a file server.

The massive addition to storage does sound strange, since I remember the tape drive on my Atari, and I was excited to get a 90K disk drive for Christmas.

But then I had one song on the Atari, a very grainy-sounding Van Halen track in mono, that took 30K. I have thousands of songs on my computer now, quality all but indistinguishable from CD, but file sizes in the multi-megabytes. I remember working on video in the mid-late 90s. We had hours of raw video to assemble into a 30-minute presentation at TV resolution. We bought a 30 GB hard drive to do it. How much storage would you need to do that in 1080P these days?

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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