30 Sep
2011
30 Sep
'11
10:49 p.m.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 09/30/11 12:27 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Um, we just went from the 1TB drives to 3TB drives, so I only need four.
yes, but 12 2.5" 1TB drives take the same amount of space (1U), and are capable of higher IO throughput due to being more spindles.
You missed what I originally said: I have a two-bay eSATA dock, like this http://www.bizrate.com/hard-drives/2095977853.html. And it's only on one channel. It's not a high priority, so it takes me the better part of a week to do the backups *shrug*, it also doesn't strain the network, esp. when some folks are moving *large* amounts of data (we do actual scientific computing here). Network lag would be very much of a bad thing.
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