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Re: [TCLUG:22786] RAID levels (Was: [TCLUG:22757] Raid and otherstorage stories)



Actually, both are the correct usage.  So settle down.  :P

It's nice to see that with IDE RAID, we're actually getting back
to "inexpensive".

Nick





dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu, on 10/17/2000 03:23:54 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22786] RAID levels (Was: [TCLUG:22757] Raid and other 
storage stories)

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:22:22PM -0500, Jason J wrote:
> Redundant Array of "Independent" Disks
> 
> 
No, Andy was right... It's inexpensive.  It come from back in the day when
a 1 GIG drive, for example, was << in price than, say, a 10 GIG drive.  
So, you could maybe buy 20 1 GB drives for the price of a single 10 GB.

Gabe

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