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From: Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>
Subject: Re: where to buy very very large cases
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:45:58 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, mjstumpf wrote:

> Only care about capacity--not spindles.  Currently at 6 80-gig + 4
> 120-gig.  Would like to not toss out perfectly good drives of reasonable
> size (waste of money), plus, I want to keep raid-5 arrays no smaller than
> 4 drives for efficiency reasons (lower % of drive space wasted in parity).

I wonder what the 6 80 gigs would get on ebay.

Enough to buy three 250's, and raid5 them?  Looks like they're about 40-50
dollars on ebay.  Times 6.. 300 bucks.  Ok, not quite enough :)

But if you're buying new drives anyways, this would easily take care of
your case issues, saving you a couple hundred bucks there.

Mike