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Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sat Apr 14 11:05:48 2012
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:04:49 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> said:
> There may be a performance penalty using raid4, because it uses one
> parity disk. Although that system looks like it can be useful for some
> purposes it looks less ideal for home use. Also I don't see how it would
> allow you to install your own OS.
For read-mostly storage, there's no penalty as long as there's no disk
failure. The parity drive wouldn't even spin up for reads.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
