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Article #315Re: SCSI/IDE and RAID [Was: 120 gb is the Largest hard drive I can put in my 4550?]
From: Hunter1
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 04:06
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 04:06
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David H. Lipman wrote: > Tom: > > Using RAID 5, I can use 5 x 80GB drives and get 320GB instead of buying two 250GB drives. > As for use of mirroring software, never. Too much overhead *always* use hardware based RAID > solutions. Would agree with that, but wonder why you seem to think SCSI is a necessity??? I tend to think SCSI is over-rated, IDE RAID does the job without any probs and is much cheaper.
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