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From: Roland Perry on 23 Jun 2010 02:56 In message <hvr8n6$sao$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, at 14:06:47 on Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Jeff Strickland <crwlrjeff(a)yahoo.com> remarked: >I bought a device called EZ-CONNECT. Basically, it's an interface converter >that takes an internal drive -- IDE 2.5", IDE 3.5", and SATA -- and turns it >into a USB-based external drive. Maplin sell devices like that, but curiously the one I bought also suffered from an early death :( -- Roland Perry
From: Jon Green on 23 Jun 2010 05:11 On 23/06/2010 08:40, Ben C wrote: > The whole point of a RAID is you populate it with eight _different_ > drives, not 8 identical ones! Wuh? No, the whole point of a RAID is (or, rather, are): 1. Greater resilience, because data are being stored redundantly across multiple drives, and (later enhancement) failed drives can be hot-replaced, giving 100% uptime unless the RAID controller, network or power fails; 2. Better response times, because the redundancy means that the first disk to have the data under its head array "wins", and gets it to you faster than a single-disk storage unit; 3. Costs of 3-4 small disks are broadly similar to one bleeding-edge-sized disk for the same storage capacity. (The downsides, of course, are power consumption and added noise.) Others have quite correctly pointed out the problems with multiple-model arrays, so I won't belabour those points. Suffice to say, I always populate a RAID with identical parts, and keep one as shelf stock for fast swap-out. Jon -- SPAM BLOCK IN USE! To reply in email, replace 'deadspam' with 'green-lines'. Blog: http://bit.ly/45cLHw Pix: http://bit.ly/d8V2NJ Website: http://www.green-lines.com/
From: tony sayer on 23 Jun 2010 05:43 In article <b-KdnYwp-7Ll3LzRnZ2dnUVZ8lKdnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, Jon Green <jonsg(a)deadspam.com> scribeth thus >On 22/06/2010 23:52, Paul Bird wrote: >> Seagate Barracudas have done me well for the last five or six years > >Me three. I populate RAIDs with them. Out of eight drives, I've only >had to replace one. Even that one hadn't broken, but was starting to >raise SMART warnings, so I dropped in a replacement for safety's sake. > >Jon Had 2 Seagate Barracuda's go down in the lest year or so . Have some older Seagate drives and they just keep on spinnin;!... -- Tony Sayer
From: Roland Perry on 23 Jun 2010 05:49 In message <BbednRHroYQSK7zRnZ2dnUVZ7rWdnZ2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, at 08:23:48 on Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Jon Green <jonsg(a)deadspam.com> remarked: >> Don't think a reformat will fix them either as some on t'internet think. > >A low level reformat can sometimes help, but IME it usually only delays >the inevitable. It won't actually write a "low level" format pattern to the drive, but will serve to mark some sectors as "bad". However, it won't stop the rot spreading. -- Roland Perry
From: Roland Perry on 23 Jun 2010 05:55
In message <slrni23ego.5ab.spamspam(a)bowser.marioworld>, at 02:40:01 on Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Ben C <spamspam(a)spam.eggs> remarked: >The whole point of a RAID is you populate it with eight _different_ >drives, not 8 identical ones! Nonsense. You *can* populate some controllers like that, but it's not particularly useful unless you are extremely under-funded [1]. [1] I have one such setup, because I couldn't cheaply/easily source an identical drive after one of the originals failed. -- Roland Perry |