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Subject: Re: debian9/raid1 assembly/unexpected failure opening device
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:15:02 +0100
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On 12/09/17 23:37, Nix wrote:
>>                 They all seem to cost about 50% more than the basic
>> > desktop drives, but that's still amazingly cheap ...
> ... until you need to buy lots of them. :)

I'm just thinking back to my first disk drive. I paid £200 for a WD
bigfoot. It was a 5400rpm 5 1/4 drive - marketed as "cheapest cost per
MB available". And how big was it? Just *six* *giga*bytes, I think my
current pair of 3TB drives cost me less than that - 3 orders of
magnitude more storage, for less money.

Cheers,
Wol