> IIRC, the OP said he's currently "storing some huge historical data to > mysql database" on a combination of his internal laptop drive and two > 320GB external USB drives. Let's see, that's > > 320 + 320 + 250?? = 890 GB _IF_ they're full, which they probably > aren't, and he's probably holding duplicated copies on the 320 GB drives > for redundancy. So 2 TB mirrored, 1 TB net, would fit his needs, easily.
sorry for the confusion. the size of data I _plan_ to use is on the 4T level so 8T is needed.. and that's why I really need a desktop right now. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=eXWT0GyaDCtqJ=zxerxr0yi3yjwn5u5+tg...@mail.gmail.com