Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives
On 9/20/14, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
> What's the point of creating and attaching to your computer an
> unreliable storage system which continues to give you trouble because
> it's unreliable?
*100% ditto*
This is coming from someone operating at an extremely low income
level: Buy the more expensive shtuff the first time 'round. Wait an
extra month, two months, buy a few less impulse items beforehand,
whatever it takes to afford it, but buy the better product. Cheap
stuff is cheap for a reason.
I'm sitting on a 2^64 - 1 partition right now because it was USB
connected. Best as I can tell, dog f*rted, porch floor shook, and USB
connection broke for a SPLIT SECOND while GRUB2 was installing anew.
Chances are very good that would NOT have happened if I'd had a more
stable setup..
After going through this several times lately, I think of it this way:
$25 for a cheap part when better quality is $50. That cheap part WILL
break and usually very soon. $25 DOWN THE DRAIN, boom, just like that
when that same $25 could have gone towards that $50 part I now HAVE to
buy anyway. Makes that $50 part now basically..... $75 with an
increased potential for loss of critical data in the process.
As always, YMMV. Good luck!
Cindy
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Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* I comment, therefore I am (procrastinating elsewhere) *
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