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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:50:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104100850.41768.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinM7P8148iKoVDSr1SzpsaYUHkqtQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 09 April 2011 22:01:18 Mark Knecht wrote:

> Are you running a RAID?

Yes; mdadm RAID-1, with LVM on top, as in the Gentoo how-to: 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml

> Are you looking for a little redundancy or a lot of redundancy?

I'm just speculating at the moment, from a dabbler's point of view; what benefits 
would accrue from switching from RAID-1 to RAID-5 or above? And, in particular, 
what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks?

> What are your future space & drive bandwidth requirements vs today's
> requirements?

The same as today's.

PS. Please don't send a second e-mail copy to me; I can read the list the same 
as anyone else.

-- 
Rgds
Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-10  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-09 20:00 [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations? Peter Humphrey
2011-04-09 21:01 ` Mark Knecht
2011-04-10  7:50   ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-04-10 11:53     ` Stroller
2011-04-10 13:43       ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-10 13:50     ` Mark Knecht
2011-04-10 14:23       ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-11  3:35       ` Stroller
2011-04-11  8:04       ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-04-10 14:26     ` Dale
2011-04-11 16:51     ` pk
2011-04-11 17:41       ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-11 18:27 ` Paul Hartman

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