Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re:OT: external hard disk size
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Tue Mar 29 00:27:05 2005
References: <BAY104-F39D207D2DD95ECDC806805B2450@phx.gbl>
 
> The size of the disk does not matter. Mission critical servers use massive 
> HDD's (Terabytes in size) and suffer no consequences.

I disagree. Mission critical servers use RAID arrays of multiple disks. And 
size does matter. A bigger disk has different sector geometry, higher 
recording densities, and is more vulnerable to imperfections and dust.

The biggest disk available on the market today is about 0.5 Terabytes.
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