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- Subject: [Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes
- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:36:03 -0400
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On 7/10/2015 12:06 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > Feels like RAID is dying of disks being too inexpensive, or better put, > too big at a still-affordable price. The amount of data to copy to bring > a new disk into an existing array is getting too big. It takes too long, > it starts to consume too much of the disks' life span--both the old > disks that have to serve up their entire contents for the newcomer, and > the newcomer that starts life being entirely written in a long, hot effort. The answer to this conundrum is simple: disks are consumables like toner and paper and batteries. > 24-disks is enough to be pretty interesting and Newegg will sell 1TB > drives for under $50 each. A pretty interesting and capable testbed > could be had for not that much money. You can get new 2TB Hitachi drives for $54 from Newegg. And you know what? I'm ordering a set for my server. The old drives are 4+ years old now and they're probably going to start failing soon. -- Rich P.
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