From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
To: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com>,
Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID types & chunks sizes for new NAS drives
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:01:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24306.13691.769328.392093@quad.stoffel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPpdf5-RWyGX4Q9qaZBDfxUXedf+MnV3wnXh6R3XSF7-LomKzQ@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> "o1bigtenor" == o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com> writes:
o1bigtenor> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 9:06 PM John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
>>
o1bigtenor> snip
>> In any case, make sure you get NAS rated disks, either the newest WD
>> RED+ (or is it Blue?) In any case, make sure to NOT get the SMR
>> (Shingled Magnetic Recording) format drives. See previous threads in
>> this group, as well as the arstechnica.com discussion about it all
>> that they disk last month. Very informative.
>>
>> Personally, with regular hard disks, I still kinda think 4gb is the
>> sweet spot, since you can just mirror pairs of the disks and then
>> stripe across on top as needed. I like my storage simple, because
>> when (not if!) it all hits the fan, simple is easier to recover from.
>>
o1bigtenor> Did you mean 4 TB or 4 GB as you wrote?
o1bigtenor> (Somewhat of a difference I do believe.)
LOL! I meant 4Tb of course... but I do remember when 10mb HDs were
amazing... :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-23 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-21 16:23 RAID types & chunks sizes for new NAS drives Ian Pilcher
2020-06-23 1:45 ` John Stoffel
2020-06-23 2:31 ` o1bigtenor
2020-06-23 17:01 ` John Stoffel [this message]
2020-06-24 22:13 ` o1bigtenor
2020-06-23 12:26 ` Nix
2020-06-23 18:50 ` John Stoffel
2020-06-23 15:36 ` antlists
2020-06-23 18:55 ` John Stoffel
2020-06-24 12:32 ` Phil Turmel
2020-06-24 14:49 ` John Stoffel
2020-06-24 18:41 ` Wols Lists
2020-06-23 20:27 ` Ian Pilcher
2020-06-23 21:30 ` John Stoffel
2020-06-23 23:16 ` Ian Pilcher
2020-06-24 0:34 ` John Stoffel
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