Re: Compressed Disks
"halfmeg" <[email protected]>
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--- In [email protected], "somitcw" <somitcw@e...> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Peter D. Ward" <pdw@m...> wrote: > - - - > >We long ago rejected compressed DASD as unsuitable > >for our production goals. On developer systems it > >makes more sense but there are still opportunities > >for trouble with it. > > I now keep four copies of my production system > on one 160GB PC disk in CCKD format. ( Four weekly > backups). The last 160GB hard drive that I bought > was USD150. My small old 233Mhz and 300Mhz > Gateway towers will hold over a TB of storage each. > Mirror or RAID 5 would cut into that ><snip> This is somewhat dated but the comparison with the Sun units were made with 2 RAID5 arrays defined. Current 160gb and larger would allow you to put it in a smaller box. "1.2tb - 16 Maxtor 80gb EIDE drives - expandable to 4tb the read speed using 512kb chunks and RAID5 on two arrays - it's faster than Sun's (very expensive) T300 units." Phil - at the time about $3,500 or so ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption! http://us.click.yahoo.com/JjlUgA/vN2EAA/kG8FAA/dpFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: hercules-advocacy-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/