On 03/29/09 11:58, David Magda wrote:
On Mar 29, 2009, at 00:41, Michael Shadle wrote:
Well I might back up the more important stuff offsite. But in theory
it's all replaceable. Just would be a pain.
And what is the cost of the time to replace it versus the price of a
hard disk? Time ~ money.
So what is best if you get a 4th drive for a 3 drive raidz? Is it
better to keep it separate and use it for backups of the replaceable
data (perhaps on a different machine), as a hot spare, second parity,
or something else? Seems so un-green to have it spinning uselessly :-)
LTO-4 tape drives at $200 just for the media? I guess not...
There used to be a time when I like fiddling with computer parts. I now
have other, more productive ways of wasting my time. :)
Quite.
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