From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS is written to a device with no partition table. Is it possible to add a partition table?
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:54:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <571840D3.6070309@holgerdanske.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANJQ5C4Zc4hu7cLebNHnb0qPH2EObtmVE0oqew8A+Qkgf6brkQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/20/2016 12:54 PM, Joe Hillenbrand wrote:
> As many of you suggested, since I only have 2.8TiB of actual data, It
> wouldn't hurt to just buy a 3TB drive for this process. It's better to
> just spend the money rather than risk losing my data.
>
> It's not like I won't have a use for it in the future. I even have an
> extra slot in my RAID array, so I can just stick it there.
>
> Turns out this problem just needed counseling rather than technical advice. ;)
If you're going to buy one disk just for 2.8 TiB of data and plan to put
it into your RAID array later, get a drive that matches the drives that
are already in your RAID array (4 TB NAS HDD?).
Checking prices on Amazon for my 8 TB desktop HDD and mobile rack as a
backup device suggestion:
- Seagate desktop HDD 8 TB $320
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019OSCLH8
- StarTech mobile rack $65
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000E2Y8P
So, $385+ USD for a 8 TB desktop HDD with mobile rack.
Then I discovered that Seagate makes an "Archive" HDD. This may or may
not be the right drive for your application, depending upon your process
and tools:
- Seagate archive HDD 8 TB $215
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XS423SC
So, $280+ USD for 8 TB archive HDD with mobile rack.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-21 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-19 19:08 [dm-crypt] LUKS is written to a device with no partition table. Is it possible to add a partition table? Joe Hillenbrand
2016-04-19 20:06 ` Arno Wagner
2016-04-19 20:20 ` Ralf Ramsauer
2016-04-19 21:15 ` Michael Kjörling
2016-04-19 20:14 ` Ralf Ramsauer
2016-04-19 21:02 ` Joe Hillenbrand
2016-04-20 2:28 ` f-dm-c
2016-04-20 19:26 ` Joe Hillenbrand
2016-04-20 19:43 ` Joe Hillenbrand
2016-04-20 19:54 ` Joe Hillenbrand
2016-04-21 2:54 ` David Christensen [this message]
2016-04-21 9:02 ` Arno Wagner
2016-04-20 4:14 ` David Christensen
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