Re: file systems

OK ... data drives are now ext3 :) ... I'll look more into LVM but at the
moment between all drives I've got a whopping 2GB free and that's earmarked
for my weekly downloads (cause getting the TV I want through cable is really
expensive ... why does Shaw not carry SciFi?!?!) ... Once I get around to
burning off some more data and have some free space LVM might be a good idea
:) ... as for the 300GB+ drive I'd love to but even $130 is prohibitively
expensive at this point (ask Conrad :) ) ... thanks to everyone for helping
me see the light ;)

On 8/8/06, Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca> wrote:
>
> Dave Hall writes:
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:21:36PM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> > > Kurtis Peterson wrote:
> > > >No RAID because the drives are different sizes ... main drive is
> 160GB
> > > >... 2nd is 80GB ... 3rd is 60GB :) ... to be honest the reason the
> > >
> > > Well, a 300gb drive is something like 130$ -- and 180$ will get you a
> > > 400gb one. I'd recommend you get a 400gb drive, move all your data to
> > > one drive, and throw the rest out (I use old drives for testing
> purposes
> > > -- but I buy matched sets of drives since I've run RAID for years).
> >
> > I do RAID where I need high availability (eg .9999 uptime). For a
> typical
> > home system, I don't think RAID buys much since it is not a substitute
> for
> > backups.
>
> It buys much when a drive dies late on a Sunday night and you've got stuff
> you're wanting to work on for Monday morning :) No, it's not a
> substitute for backups, but it's really nice to not have to wait till
> the next day to go buy a big disk cause all the little ones you have
> arn't big enough to restore your data to :) That, and who wants to
> spend hours recovering from backups? :)
>
> > I'd recommend putting whatever you want in the box and buying a big
> drive
> > and external enclosure (perhaps a couple) to do backups. You can
> > disconnect the external drive from the computer and wall power to reduce
> > the risk of primary and backup drives failing at the same time. Not as
> > good as off-site backups but better than RAID or a slave drive to
> protect
> > against data loss.
>
> Buy a pair of 320GB's, RAID'em, and sleep happily. For additional
> happieness, buy them from different suppliers (or make sure they come
> from different batches) so you you don't have grief with "all disks
> from this particular batch go bad at the same time" problems...
>
> Later...
>
> Greg Oster
>
>
>
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Received on Tue Aug 8 13:56:02 2006