hard drive config suggestions

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 19:14:03 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:14, James Pifer wrote:

> So, on to my question. It's a real hassle to go through this when
> ATA/EIDE drives fail, and it seems like they fail a lot nowadays. I have
> quite a few of these drives so I'm not looking to purchase anything
> else, like SATA. So I'm wondering should I try doing some type of RAID5
> with these drives?

If you have power problems or the motherboard fries it can take
all the attached drives at once.  You might be better off getting
some firewire/usb2 enclosures for your extra drives and just
periodically mount them and rsync the parts you want to back
up.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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