mkfs.ext3 on 500GB drive

[Justin Conover]

On 6/27/05, dominik.schastok at t-online.de <dominik.schastok at t-online.de> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> kind regards
> Dominik Schastok
> 
> >On Sunday 26 June 2005 18:36, Horst von Brand wrote:
> >> I don't think so. The most expensive part of a disk is the head
> assembly
> >> and such (witness the prices for different sized disks of similar
> make and
> >> performance), putting in two makes no sense. It is probably just
> larger
> >> platters (thus larger casing).
> >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
> internal
> >controller and several smaller harddisks.
> >
> >Peter.
> >
> >--
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.