11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
12:42 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Al Kossow wrote:
On 3/11/11 12:48 PM, Richard wrote:
Why JBOD over RAID5?
g.
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minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end.
And that was Al's point -- heads touching the
medium do bad things in
the context of archival processes.
I guess I was being too clever with that post. What I trying to express
was my dislike of magnetic tape and floppies. Both require the media
to be in contact with the head to work. Magnetic and optical rigid disks
do not.
My current preferred archival medium are high capacity SATA disks, and a
LOT of redundancy. I am in the process of migrating from PATA RAID 5 to
SATA JBOD with software to track failed drives. Part of the archival