RE: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would really really strongly advise against that ...

... any OS would be justified in getting its tits in a twist if drives
simply "vanish" without being able to do any housekeeping of its
own before
they are removed.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mal Lansell
> Sent: 01 September 2007 22:29
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 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.
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> Mal
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> Phil Harris wrote:
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> > > 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 ...
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> > Phil
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