On 12/09/17 23:37, Nix wrote: >> They all seem to cost about 50% more than the basic >> > desktop drives, but that's still amazingly cheap ... > ... until you need to buy lots of them. :) I'm just thinking back to my first disk drive. I paid £200 for a WD bigfoot. It was a 5400rpm 5 1/4 drive - marketed as "cheapest cost per MB available". And how big was it? Just *six* *giga*bytes, I think my current pair of 3TB drives cost me less than that - 3 orders of magnitude more storage, for less money. Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html