Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] RAID controllers?
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Mon Aug 18 18:17:46 2008
References: <4cfa589b0808181442l43a48cf9x5099715b065362b5@mail.gmail.com> <200808182227.AVU31589@rg5.comporium.net> <B241372DA965DBC5BED4C064@scarborough.isc.org> <8EE805FD-1F72-43CE-86DA-DD88002AE945@embarqmail.com> <20080818235942.GK5239@jbm.org> <7727F2380857C1BF842EC838@scarborough.isc.org>

2008-08-18-20:47:41 Brian Reid:
> I did exactly the same thing, for exactly the same reasons, except I used 
> a 
> Barracuda. Underwater raptor, I suppose.

Indeed.  My array is made of 'Cudas ES2, but a boot disk doesn't need to
be big -- so it might as well have unreasonably-fast seek times (so it
can do double duty as scratch space, or just so you can hear the
extra-fast ticky-ticky at boot).

  http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2178-001026.pdf

Jeez, looks as if in the time I've had it, that line of drives has gone
"legacy".  WD's getting into the speedy-2.5-inch scene, following the
Seagate Savvio family (except WD's still willing to deliver fast drives
in SATA form).

Oh, look: you can get the new 2.5-inch VelociRaptor encased in a 3.5"
block of aluminum, if that size is what you require:

  http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=495

 -J

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