file server

[hugme]

Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad1s1d    451G    409G    6.1G    99%    /bigmama/tv
/dev/ad2s1d    451G    394G     21G    95%    /bigmama/other
/dev/ad3s1d    361G    313G     19G    94%    /bigmama/movies



time to upgrade the file server at home it looks like....

Comments

[splunge.livejournal.com]

Seems like they are giving away terrabyte drive in boxes of Cracker Jacks nowadays

[dwivian]

Please tell me you have that in a raid or something... I can't imagine someone like you living in under 1.5 TB....

[tgrey.livejournal.com]

409G worth of TV? I'd be hard pressed to pick a tenth of that actually worth watching.

[bitmap.livejournal.com]

The Seagate 1.5TB drives should be available in the next month or two.
I think you deserve a few of them :) or at the least, the 1TB disks should get cheaper.

Dwivian mentioned RAID, and I don't know about you, but I wouldn't even trust most of the RAIDs I could afford with my data, considering rebuild times with large disks these days. You could call me paranoid, but I've spent 15 years collecting some of this stuff, and a lot is irreplaceable. I've got a 750G and a 500G mirror, with a third disk for each that I rotate through the mirror every couple of months, to take off-site. I really wonder why no one supports a three-disk mirror yet, disks are cheap, data is not. (Hey, can i patent that?) Dang, someone else already thought of it, four years ago, on a freebsd mailing list. Those BSD guys are pretty bright ;)