[geeks] So what is a "Frankenmac"?

[Ken Hansen]

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives = RAID.

Seems to me, that if you take a bunch of IDE wonder disks (from BestBuy.com, etc.) - at, say, 15 Gigs for $50, or 30 Gigs for $100 you don't have to spend much on the drives to get a large array of "mirrored" drives.

Now, if you run a software RAID package, you could probably rig up something to improve the performance of the array of inexpensive drives...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: joshua d boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:27 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] So what is a "Frankenmac"?


On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:19:01PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 10:59:27AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> >>  Yeah, but did she manage to get her SB Live working under either
> >>  OS?  That's the real test of a sophisticate SO.
> >
> >Of course.  She cant survive without her 5 gig of MP3s.
> 
> 5 gigs? thats IT??? come on... I had to build a new raid for my and 
> my SO's mp3s... its got almsot 20 gigs on it right now.

A new raid?  I mean, MP3s are nice if you like them, but they aren't worth
priemium quality storage.  I always that that the cheapest IDE should be
good enough.