4 Oct
2004
4 Oct
'04
1:43 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Dan Wright wrote:
On Monday 04 October 2004 14:58, John Foust wrote:
Sure it can be done. The technology is available now. The density would
be adequate. I think there's a market for it. Now to just write a
business plan and attract some investors...
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The point of RAID is to save your data when a
drive fails.
If the logic board goes, or especially the motor fails,
you're out of luck.
True, but those failure modes are much less common the a media failure or head
crash.
That brings me to another point, though -- if you had 2 seperate disks in the
same enclosure, with no environmental isolation between them, you'd likely
kill both disks with a head crash on either one. A head crash in a modern
high-speed drive tends to throw a lot of pulverized platter and head bits
around inside the disk, damaging the other platters that may not have been
involved in the actual crash. So I think you'd need to isolate the sections
from each other with some kind of airtight (or at least
really-small-bits-of-metal tight) seal; probably doable, but would take up
more room that you're pretty low on already.
That sure would make an interesting drive :) If it could be pulled off cheap
enough, it would be well worth it, too.