System Spec (OT?)

[Liam Proven]

On 04/02/2008, Christopher Copeland <chrcop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 Feb 2008, at 08:11, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> > You do know that you can't effectively RAID together disks of
> > different sizes?
>
> Not true. While it does make life easier when using entire disks in
> RAID arrays to have disks of the same size (and even better same
> manufacturer and geometry as not all disks of size X are the same) it
> is not required. However based on the cost of the components mentioned
> I would assume the OP to be using software RAID and as such could be
> using the 80GB plus half the 160GB as a RAID1 for data and the
> remainder of the 160GB for the OS(es) etc.. While perhaps not a common
> route, it is possible and would be effective.

Well, that's true. I've never tried it, but it's theoretically
possible. Not an elegant solution, though!

> > If you don't want RAID, I think the sweet spot for price:capacity in
> > HDs at the moment is about 400MB.
>
> You of course mean GB ;-)

Ooops! I do. Sorry! I'm showing my age.

[f/x: Monty Python, 3 Yorkshiremen] When I were a lad, 400MB were real
money. We'd have been *glad* to have 400MB...

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