Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:14:15 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual 400 -> dual 600 worth it? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991210110632.0498fa80@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912100558510.11023-100000@moo.sysabend.org> References: <4.2.0.58.19991210042304.048a2c90@localhost>
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At 06:59 AM 12/10/1999 , Jamie Bowden wrote: >Inexpensive != Cheap Actually, RAID systems were conceived as a way of using *very* cheap drives from companies you've probably never heard of -- such as Kalok -- without worrying so much about failures. You knew that these drives would fail every so often, but the odds that more than one would fail at a time were tiny. So, buying a few more drives at a greatly reduced cost (and getting more speed on top of that) was a win. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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