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Re: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk



I couldn't find a definitve answer on the win2k/eternal spindown
thing,
but since the drives will be read only in normal use, I guess I can just
stick the array on an appliance module and power on/off when needed.

Mal


Phil Harris wrote:

> > I'm not using RAID. The data is all video & music and is
static, so
> > it's easy to create a duplicate set of disks to store off-site. I
> > can live with the occasional drive failure. Browsing the
collection
> > will be handled via a database on another machine, so I only need
to
> > spin up a drive to play something from it.
>
> I don't use RAID either ...
>
> Phil
>
>





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