[Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 02/14/2012 11:32 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>> One issue with RAID is that you don't want to mix geometries.
> Reason?   Also, do you mean actual physical geometry or the lies that
> all drives seem to give now?  (Which from what I've seen on a random
> collection of drives seem to all be the same anyway.)
Roughly the same. I don't want to match a 1TB drive with a 160GB, but if
the two drives are slightly different in geometry then you'll just be
wasting a small amount of space.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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