WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited September 2008
You folks are horrible geeks
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited September 2008
RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data across several disks in a way which gives improved speed and full capacity, but all data on all disks will be lost if any one disk fails.
RAID 1 (mirrored disks) uses two (possibly more) disks which each store the same data, so that data is not lost as long as one disk survives. Total capacity of the array is just the capacity of a single disk. The failure of one drive, in the event of a hardware or software malfunction, does not increase the chance of a failure nor decrease the reliability of the remaining drives (second, third, etc).
RAID 5 (striped disks with parity) combines three or more disks in a way that protects data against loss of any one disk; the storage capacity of the array is reduced by one disk. The less common RAID 6 can recover from the loss of two disks.
Syquest 44MB external SCSIs were pretty popular on the Mac and Amiga for large DTP or video/animation projects. They weren't terribly reliable though..
My computer still has a floppy but I can't remember the last time I used it. The funny part is it's the same drive from my first PC in 1995. I'm building a new computer though and I won't transfer the floppy over to it, have no use for it and the old PC has a special front hole that will only fit a floppy so it would look funny if I took it out of there - and I plan to keep using that PC as a DVR.
RAID is fucking gay unless you are running a serious server and need to hot-swap them in case they fail. It has no use in your average gaming/etc PC other than bragging rights and being a huge pain in the ass.
Anyway my new PC has a memory card built into the motherboard with a small linux-like operating system you can boot from if you need to set up RAID disks. It's pretty slick, you don't even need a drive hooked up to it, just cpu and ram.
If you don't see the point of a RAID setup, I guess you've never had any data you don't want to lose.
I just bought this baby right here. Just plug it in, enable RAID and you're good to go.
If you don't see the point of a RAID setup, I guess you've never had any data you don't want to lose.
I just bought this baby right here. Just plug it in, enable RAID and you're good to go.
I'm guessing the 'no point in RAID' was in reference to RAID 0. Which is right, in normal, everyday desktop use there's very little point using RAID 0.
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RAID 1 (mirrored disks) uses two (possibly more) disks which each store the same data, so that data is not lost as long as one disk survives. Total capacity of the array is just the capacity of a single disk. The failure of one drive, in the event of a hardware or software malfunction, does not increase the chance of a failure nor decrease the reliability of the remaining drives (second, third, etc).
RAID 5 (striped disks with parity) combines three or more disks in a way that protects data against loss of any one disk; the storage capacity of the array is reduced by one disk. The less common RAID 6 can recover from the loss of two disks.
My computer still has a floppy but I can't remember the last time I used it. The funny part is it's the same drive from my first PC in 1995. I'm building a new computer though and I won't transfer the floppy over to it, have no use for it and the old PC has a special front hole that will only fit a floppy so it would look funny if I took it out of there - and I plan to keep using that PC as a DVR.
Anyway my new PC has a memory card built into the motherboard with a small linux-like operating system you can boot from if you need to set up RAID disks. It's pretty slick, you don't even need a drive hooked up to it, just cpu and ram.
STEAM!
What the hell was that again?
Also HyperCard: Best "programming language" ever.
I have a ton of games and data on floppy disks from computers I used long ago
my computer could probably kick the shit out of yours anyway, I can almost run TF2 at max
LOGO
But 20 years later, who's laughing now Mr. Choal?!?
Okay now we're gonna make a pinwheel by repeating this square over and over again with minor changes in the rotation.
NOW IN COLOR!
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I remember creating traffic light co-ordination patterns on ACORN pc's
edit: LOGO was the shit in primary school, like spirograph but with a robot turtle wooo
I have been thinking about raiding my drives, I have like 8 SATA ports on my mother board.
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The server I do most of my work on at work is using RAID 5+0
17 disks in RAID 5 with 1 hotspare that mirrors to the other array
It's sexy.. soo sexy
You basically mirror 2 RAID 0 arrays so if one disk fails you don't lose the data like you would in a normal raid 0 setup
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wooops!
and yours looks like someone glued a Tracphone to a VHS tape
what it is dog
Whats shakin'
also going back to school in spring
wooo
you flyin hella airplanes with stewardesses riding your dick like the dragon from Mystical Ninja?
but what about the ladies
And there's a ring involved
I just bought this baby right here. Just plug it in, enable RAID and you're good to go.
I'm guessing the 'no point in RAID' was in reference to RAID 0. Which is right, in normal, everyday desktop use there's very little point using RAID 0.
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Is this a new development? The ring I mean
More on-topic, this one time in school we were supposed to have an electronics test, but the teacher's syquest drive died, so no test for us. Woo!