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Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?

Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.embedded
From JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet>
Subject Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?
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Message-ID <slrnm5th50.ld0.jedi@nomad.mishnet> (permalink)
Date 2014-11-08 19:34 -0600

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On 2014-11-08, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> On 08/11/14 00:00, 7 wrote:
>> Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> I did 4TB upgrade to 6TB and the whole process
>> of backing up and fixing partitions took best part
>> of half a day with Linux.
>>
>> Never heard of such things.

    Copying large amounts of data will take a long time.

    Linux has nothing to do with that.

> Learn to use raid - either mdraid or btrfs with raid.  Upgrading or 
> replacing disks then needs only a little effort as you swap drives 
> (perhaps powering off if you don't have hot swapping) - all the copying 
> is done in the background, while the system is still working.

    The same is still true of some more crude JBOD setup. What he is whining
about has squat to do with Linux and is simply a limitation of the technology
and the bulk of data he's dealing with.

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Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2014-11-07 23:00 +0000
  Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-11-08 13:39 +0100
    Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2014-11-08 20:00 +0000
      Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-08 15:07 -0500
        Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2014-11-08 20:14 +0000
    Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-11-08 19:34 -0600
      Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2014-11-10 00:36 +0000
  Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2014-11-11 09:16 +0000
    Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 08:49 -0500
      Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 08:51 -0500
        Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 09:09 -0500
          Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 09:46 -0500
            Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 10:30 -0500
              Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 10:49 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2014-11-11 11:04 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 11:37 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 11:46 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 12:24 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 12:47 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 11:14 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 11:59 -0500
                Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 12:05 -0500
      Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2014-11-11 09:29 -0500
        Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-11 09:48 -0500
          Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Kristof Provost <kristof@codepro.be> - 2014-11-20 14:46 +0000
        Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 10:27 -0500
    Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2014-11-23 00:38 +0000
      Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Sir Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-22 22:12 -0500
        Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-22 20:29 -0700
          Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Sir Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-22 22:45 -0500
            Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-22 20:49 -0700
              Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Sir Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-22 23:32 -0500
        Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2014-11-23 19:41 +0000
  Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Alexander Suvorov <axr.suvorov@yandex.ru> - 2016-07-08 16:29 +0300
    Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2016-07-10 04:47 -0400
      Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-07-11 09:31 +0200
    Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-07-11 09:33 +0200
      Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives? Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2018-07-16 11:20 +0100

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