[olug] 2TB Harddrives On Sale

[Charles Bird]

Speaking of RAID...and it may be the alcohol talking....  screw RAID5!!!
Yeh, we all know it has a parity drive, 3 times now, with a single disk
failure, I've seen a 5 go down, again, fyi.
YES, take backups.
End of message from beyond.



On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Friday 07 May 2010 08:40:38 pm Will Langford wrote:
> > Unless you're looking for throw away storage or really trust your raid /
> >  zfs setup :).  Maybe as PVR storage, i dunno...
>
> RAID is only useful to avoid downtime. It cannot solve the same problems
> that
> demand the need of proper backups. If a little downtime isn't a problem, a
> hard drive failure shouldn't be a big deal. ;)
>
> On Friday 07 May 2010 08:53:59 pm Kevin D. Snodgrass wrote:
> > Also, notice in the ad it says $109.99 *AFTER* mail-in rebate.  For those
> >  not in the know, that means if you send in the rebate form for your $40
> >  cheque you will be getting lots of junk mail of the dead tree variety.
>
> If you're lucky enough to get the rebate in the first place. Last time I
> bought anything with a rebate from TigerDirect, whoever handles the rebates
> screwed up and mixed up my UPCs with the rebate forms and refused to fill
> them
> on the basis of the wrong UPCs! I was told to resend them with the correct
> UPCs, which of course wasn't possible since they insisted on originals...
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