mkfs.ext3 on 500GB drive

[Robert L Cochran]

Justin Conover wrote:

>On 6/27/05, dominik.schastok at t-online.de <dominik.schastok at t-online.de> wrote:
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>>After all I heard, this has to be an hardware error, maybe the internal
>>controller isn´t working correctly.
>>I formated a 600GB raid5 array (software raid) on my fc4 box yesterday
>>without any problems.
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>>kind regards
>>Dominik Schastok
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>>>On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
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>>>>I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head
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>>assembly
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>>>>and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar
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>>make and
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>>>>performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just
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>>larger
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>>>>platters (thus larger casing).
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>>>I think you're missing the scope of what LaCie does... :-)
>>>They do not manufacture harddisks, they make external enclosures using
>>>standard disk drives - Last I heard they were using mostly WD...
>>>To offer large capacities (their enclosures go up to 2TB) they use an
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>>internal
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>>>controller and several smaller harddisks.
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>>>Peter.
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>I am returning it and getting my $$ back and this is what i'm thinking
>of doing now,  just get a case and a 4-5 hotswap sata bay and use
>sata-to-sata for backup,  I think i would get much better performance
>and I can do it for the same price.  I wont fill all the drives up
>just yet, just get them as I need them and expand the lv.
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Make sure your power supply can handle it all. You can get weird 
problems from an too-small or bad power supply.

Bob Cochran