Subject: Re: 160GB IDE Drives under NetBSD?
To: NetBSD/i386 Discussion List <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/23/2002 17:25:21
Greg A. Woods said:

>The largest filesystems I regularly use and maintain are about 15-35GB
>right now, but in most circumstances I would still consider anything
>over about 10GB to be "large".  I don't do any multi-media work with
>"very large" (i.e. >1GB) files though....  :-)

I just don't have much faith in drives larger than 18GB. I had to set up
a Solaris cluster last summer, and over a 1 month period I replaced 6 of
8 32GB drives. A couple of them were DOA.
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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com