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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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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