[NBLUG/talk] Good hardwar vendors (was Missing ReiserFS superblock!)

[Lincoln Peters]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I do have one concern about this hard disk: one reviewer on NewEgg  
> said that the 500GB are "salesman's" gigabytes, meaning  
> 1,000,000,000 bytes instead of 1,073,741,824 bytes.  That means  
> that the size is actually about 465GB!  That leaves about 35GB  
> that, if I remember the output of "df" correctly, might not fit on  
> this external hard disk!

Now that I have the external hard disk, and the array is working,  
here's how it breaks down:

External disk:	459GB
RAID array:		464GB

So as long as I have at least 5GB of free space on the RAID array,  
and the filesystem I use on the external hard disk works as  
efficiently as the filesystem on the RAID array, I can expect the  
external disk to work just fine for backups.


--
Lincoln "The DiskBuster" Peters
<petersl at sonoma.edu>

semper en excretus