28 Mar
2018
28 Mar
'18
10:57 a.m.
On 28 March 2018 at 02:51, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Well outside my realm of expertise (as if I had a
realm!), . . .
How many drives would you need, to be able to set up a RAID, or hot
swappable RAUD (Redundant Array of Unreliable Drives), that could give
decent reliability with such drives?
For what little it's worth, and little relevance, I had a hardware
RAID of 6 ? 80GB UltraIDE drives that ran faultlessly for several
years. Not full-time, to be fair, but surviving multiple power cycles.
In an old HP Proliant ML110 G1 -- space-heater Pentium 4 version --
with only about 2GB of RAM (because it used some kind of weird
expensive ECC RAM) and a hacked copy of Windows Server 2008.
It was a box made from free leftovers and proved to be one of my most
reliable workhorse PCs ever. Figures, really.
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