On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:25:36 -0500, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:27:23 -0500, Jason Reynolds > <jreynolds5 at mn.rr.com> wrote: >> I am helping a friend build a system that will be used for video >> editing. It needs to have 1TB of storage and would like to make sure I'm >> not missing any options. I am currently planning on getting four 250MB >> hard drive and stripping them in an array. > > I'm assumming you mean 250GB hard drives. If you're going to do this > right, get five drives and put them in a raid 5 array. If you do a Maybe also might want to get one extra just in case one goes south - then you have a spare all ready to plug into the raid 5 array > raid 0, which is sounds like you are, you're just asking for data > loss. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list