2012/12/5 Geoffrey S. Mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com>: > Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > >> >> All of the above is probably negligible compared to two important >> arguments that have already been mentioned: 1) as a home appliance >> there are better, more economical, and - most importantly! - quieter >> solutions for a modest price; 2) tinkering with such a heterogeneous >> system will yield invaluable experience, especially in terms of never >> trying anything like this for anything important. >> > > > I want to point out that disk failure statistics may be less useful than one > would think. The majority of hard disks came from a factory in Thailand > which was wiped out by a flood about 2-3 years ago. > > This caused a large rise in the price of disks, and the reamining > manufacturers scrambling to produce more disks from existing factories at > lower prices. > > The price of hard disks has yet to be as low as it was. > > Since those "new" disks have not been around long enough for long term > failure statistics, I would be careful using the old ones. > > BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several > professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork > of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's. If we're going off on fs tangents, has anyone here started playing with btrfs yet? As far as I understand it supposed to be pretty stable by now but so far I am still sticking to ext4.... Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו > > Geoff. > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 > "Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play > chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician." > (sent to me by a friend) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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