Time to burn, label, and index a disc, cost of media, reliability of media, quantity of media, small size of media, time to locate and insert a disc, etc...that's why I have 4.0TB in this box and 2.6TB in my HTPC...
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FORC5 > Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 4:41 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] RAID 5 upgrade planning > > you got to be kidding, do you really watch all this stored media ? Why not burn some > off to DVD. ( rhetorical ) > fp > > At 02:28 PM 11/4/2006, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: > > >When I built my HTPC a year ago I used a MegaRAID controller and 5 > >250GB SATA drives. This gave me a RAID 5 array with about 1.1 TB > >usable. Things have been working quite well, except that I am down to > >my last 100GB of free space. > > -- > Tallyho ! ]:8) > Taglines below ! > -- > The most popular form of birth control: The headache. >
