[luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

[Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr]

R.Scott Belford wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
>
>> We should get another 60GB drive to mirror the other 60GB drive.
>> Preferably of the same model so they both run with similar speed and
>> access times.  The exact model is $99 at local CompUSA, but I'm looking
>> for better deals elsewhere.  newegg might be the best deal because after
>> shipping it is lower than $99, without taxes.
>
>
> I went ahead and bought us a 160 gb Seagate 7200 rpm ata100 8mb cache 
> drive for the server.  We can mirror the other 60 gb drive and either 
> add to our storage or mirror 100gb of it.  Let's determine who to give 
> it to so that it can be installed.  A lack of redundancy makes me 
> anxious, so it is ready when we are.
>
> --scott
>
Isn't it best to run an array with identical drives?  What kind of raid 
controller are you using that won't waste 100G when mirroring a 60G?

Tom