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

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:45:09AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I'm fairly certain I can get two 80G 2.4" drives into the space of a
> single 3.5" "half-height" EIDE enclosure.

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.


-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).