Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?

From	7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com>
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Subject	Re: Time to abandon large mechanical hard drives?
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Date	2014-11-10 00:36 +0000

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JEDIDIAH 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.

Yup 100%. I think corporations should start banning large
mechanical drives and ordering up higher speed SSDs as the
default option because we are moving into an era where
a big disk crash is going to take out two days of
someone's time even if Linux backs you all the way.

So a building with 1000 employess gets a power surge,
and you are looking at 40 PCs down may be and while
you might get 20 out the door quickly, The remaining
will take 40 man days to sort out.

I remember them bad days - so we had buffer stock of
30 PCs.

I upgraded a 256GB SSD mail server in 2 hours.
If the future is 2 days for mechanical drives,
I'd rather management invested in more SSDs,

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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
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