[KLUG Members] Re: SuSe 9.1 Linux Software RAID

[Rusty Yonkers]

> And with 36Gb Ultra2 IBM drives selling at $40-50 you can get some
> real
> storage and performance.

For a small business that is a great price, however if you want lots
of space, like for video work, then SCSI drives are way to expensive
even if the cards are cheap.  That is why I am currently looking at
the SATA solutions that are available.  It takes roughly 40GB of
space for recording 30 minutes of video in raw AVI at DVD quality.
And yes it is worth the diskspace to have the raw AVI initially. 
Over time I have noticed quite a bit of loss in video quality while
working with video for doing more than a simple capture then dump to
DVD.  

IMHO SCSI would have been the defacto standard if people had not
tried to charge so much for the technology years ago.  Now there is
no economy of scale in it so the extra expense.  To bad too.  There
have been a number of good technologies that languished due to high
cost compared to other solutions.  

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Russell C. Yonkers Jr. 
CNE, MCP, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+ certified
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Currently using SuSE 9, Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and WinXP 
And yes I run a network at home with Linux and Windows servers
See my personal website http://www.geocities.com/therustycook
Or my consulting site at http://www.atomicsupergeek.com


		
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