How many 1" hard drives can you fit in an ordinary computer bay?

[Randall Hofland]

Derek has made the point that 4 notebook drives would make a RAID 5 
feasible, and that is something that would fit within a CD bay, wouldn't 
it? The primary fault with the small drives is overall speed, followed 
by higher cost per unit memory. Finally, to make this work in Linux or 
BSD, you'd need a good chipset driving a hardware RAID system, and not 
rely on the primary box for that like so many of the cheap RAID cards a 
few years back that worked only under WinDoze SoftRAID.

Kent Borg wrote:

>On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:45:09AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
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>>I'm fairly certain I can get two 80G 2.4" drives into the space of a
>>single 3.5" "half-height" EIDE enclosure.
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>Good point, but it gets me thinking.  These new drives (both so called
>"micro" drives and the still stunningly small 2.5"-ers) could make for
>pretty damn small thingies that could still include raid 1.  I guess
>portable devices don't benefit from raid 1 as much as do big devices:
>What are the physical risks to little devices?  Getting dropped,
>stepped on, run over, stolen, lost, etc.  Local raid 1 doesn't help
>those very much.  It only helps when a disk dies on its own.
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>-kb, the Kent who does think that occasional raid 1 for a notebook
>could be cool via firewire, if only array rebuilding were faster (plug
>in a couple hours before you want to do portable video editing).
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