Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re:OT: external hard disk size
From: creativevisions at verizon.net (Michael J Herring)
Date: Wed Mar 30 19:14:42 2005
References: <BAY104-F39D207D2DD95ECDC806805B2450@phx.gbl> <BA417F6C11097FC46019AECB@dhcp1.waverley.reid.org>

Brian,

You are absolutely right. You must work in IT. Correct?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:OT: external hard disk size


>
>> 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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In reply to: Message from alexglissan at hotmail.com (Alexander Glissan) ([Leica] Re:OT: external hard disk size)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Re:OT: external hard disk size)