Re: CD player replacement

In article <lNtNPEEcldVto2Gn9Lxf3Nij1c9rN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Trevor Hemsley <Trevor.Hemsley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:08:03 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware,
ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx (Hactar) wrote:

5 16 GB thumb drives to go in a RAID 5 (? 4 * partition + parity) making
64 GB:

I have no idea of the life epectancy of those but I would also look at using 3 x
2.5" laptop drives instead, also in RAID 5. You can get a 60GB version for
about $50 - that seems to be the smallest size you can buy at the moment. If you
went that route you might want to find a different motherboard with SATA ports
to connect them to.

Dunno... I'm trying to agoid anything that creates even a small amount
of noise. This will be in my bedroom, after all. I think I'm going to
go for having it boot and mount its filesystems over the LAN, from this
machine which is up 24/7. Yeah, that ties its operation to the router
and my machine.

Maybe a hybrid, with some 2.5" drives hanging off a USB cable in the
closet?

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