On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:01 PM John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: MEC 2548HT > > >>>>> "o1bigtenor" == o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > o1bigtenor> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 9:06 PM John Stoffel <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > o1bigtenor> snip > > >> In any case, make sure you get NAS rated disks, either the newest WD > >> RED+ (or is it Blue?) In any case, make sure to NOT get the SMR > >> (Shingled Magnetic Recording) format drives. See previous threads in > >> this group, as well as the arstechnica.com discussion about it all > >> that they disk last month. Very informative. > >> > >> Personally, with regular hard disks, I still kinda think 4gb is the > >> sweet spot, since you can just mirror pairs of the disks and then > >> stripe across on top as needed. I like my storage simple, because > >> when (not if!) it all hits the fan, simple is easier to recover from. > >> > o1bigtenor> Did you mean 4 TB or 4 GB as you wrote? > o1bigtenor> (Somewhat of a difference I do believe.) > > LOL! I meant 4Tb of course... but I do remember when 10mb HDs were > amazing... :-) I can remember buying a 40 MB drive where the serial number and drive information was hand lettered - - - - That was when 5s were sorta common and 10 MB was thought to be BIG. Oh well - - - thought it was just a typo but prefer to make sure of details!!! Thanks
