On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I need more fast-HD space for computational work. I wonder whether by adding a > second SATA raid1 (a couple of new disks) to the existing SATA raid1, my home > could be spread on the two raid1 systems, as if it were a single disk (or > filesystem, if you want). > > At the moment, on the Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE, with OS Debian amd64 etch, > there > is a raid1 arrangement made with two WD Raptor 150GB each. That affords 100GB > free space for collecting data. If I had to rely solely on the 150BG of a > second, new, raid1, space would be insufficient. I need to have 100 + 150GB. > > Raptor HDs exist at 150GB max size. On the other hand, 300GB Maxtor initially > installed proved to be incompatible with the board components, resulting, from > time to time, in memory corruption. Disks were reconstructed by the raid1, > though the job was lost. In those instances jobs were already running since ca > one month.
if you want more speed, get a faster spin hard drive something like a 15K, but you will pay for it. Also raid 10 - will give you benefits of striping and mirroring, 1 hard drive can fail and the other mirror will keep functioning. > > Thanks > > francesco pietra > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Need a vacation? Get great deals > to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. > http://travel.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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