Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:14:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > > First my current setup: > 10GB Maxtor IDE disk > Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / > 4.0G 2.5G 1.3G 64% /home > 125M 40k 124M 1% /tmp (tmpfs, not on-disk) > > > > Cont

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:10:10PM -0800, Rupa Schomaker wrote: [lots of details!] | (sorry for the devfs device names -- oh well) That's cool -- I'm using devfs too! | RAID0 is just striping. | RAID1 is mirroring. | RAID10 is a raid 1 over a raid 0. Thanks (now I don't have to go research to l

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-23 Thread Rupa Schomaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Disks : > > Western Digital WD400BBRTL > 40GB, 7200 rpm, Ultra ATA 100, 8.9 ms seek time, 2MB buffer, $130 I'd go with this one given the set you list. > Western Digital WD180ABRTL-120 > 18GB, 5400 rpm, Ultra ATA 100,

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-22 Thread dman
Thanks all for your comments! I'll consider them as I go back through the available hardware. On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:02:10PM -0800, nate wrote: | | | > Western Digital WD400BBRTL | >40GB, 7200 rpm, Ultra ATA 100, 8.9 ms seek time, 2MB buffer, | >$130 | > | > Western Digital WD180AB

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > ... > Can someone provide a comparison of Ultra ATA 100 and SCSI? Which is > faster and/or more reliable? I think one is about as reliable as the other. SCSI is faster and more expensive. If you have spare cash, go for scsi. If not, ide should do fin

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread nate
> Western Digital WD400BBRTL >40GB, 7200 rpm, Ultra ATA 100, 8.9 ms seek time, 2MB buffer, >$130 > > Western Digital WD180ABRTL-120 >18GB, 5400 rpm, Ultra ATA 100, 12.0 ms seek time, 2MB buffer, >$80 > > Samsung SV4002H (looks like a used disk) >40GB, 54000 rpm, ATA 100, $110

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread Neal Lippman
On Monday 21 January 2002 22:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dman> First my current setup: > dman> 10GB Maxtor IDE disk > dman> Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > dman> 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / > dman> 4.0G 2

persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread briand
> "dman" == dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dman> First my current setup: dman> 10GB Maxtor IDE disk dman> Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on dman> 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / dman> 4.0G 2.5G 1.3G 64% /home dman> 125M 40k 124M 1% /tmp (tmpfs

persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-21 Thread dman
First my current setup: 10GB Maxtor IDE disk Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / 4.0G 2.5G 1.3G 64% /home 125M 40k 124M 1% /tmp (tmpfs, not on-disk) I want to buy another disk to augment this. There's not enough room on this one f