From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-121510-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1Q8fJ9-0003mu-9E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:03:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAB5CE050E; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B983DE050E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb26 with SMTP id 26so5950042iyb.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:01:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=gPQADUULIO4iqS45W4lvYZeJfx8sihISwLUsjARlj5A=; b=xTPFmDF86oqNg0BRNcA0Ov1wMyYvI6RsyoVGbPyrMx0pg4z5TQ3s68Si14YmTZHT/7 yAkuyW2NcSSTeoftZxjrINGKr1nI4sybt7DrL8wEZjWMVfKcr8UNZj4k5qI4MWUWnXaM FxPBvacHSpFmOsCKx/dE0MhOHT5bolASI4k6s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=CbYEJWxuWkUuWgp2wGLZeEYNwdg8ZN/3PDvQh5ZeC04Ojl3CZIa3WZrKygPbqu1xaN aAHGtwbDMzCnPupObT92ct3RG/ZFgkbbcXr/8p3Y3htRLqehqlorpQIyniH+WMUN2aNo AL+6WmXMWHAo+l77syq7Sr8VH8MieQmsr90h0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.240.10 with SMTP id ky10mr994854icb.45.1302382878214; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:01:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.167.74 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:01:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201104092100.19783.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201104092100.19783.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:01:18 -0700 Message-ID: <BANLkTinM7P8148iKoVDSr1SzpsaYUHkqtQ@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations? From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c051222ee202777e52cf4b733f929e6a On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > Hello list, > > I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't > notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks. > > I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3 more to > make a more robust system, what advice would I receive? > > -- > Rgds > Peter Some questions: Are you running a RAID? Are you considering going to RAID? Are you looking for a little redundancy or a lot of redundancy? What are your future space & drive bandwidth requirements vs today's requirements? Sort of hard to give any inputs (not even advice) not knowing what your usage model is. Cheers, Mark