You are assuming that each drive is individually addressable. You may find that the implementation is hidden from the host. If this is the case then it would be Raid 0 (Striping) and have a failure rate of MBTF/4. ie it is four times more likely to fail
Or is it a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and therefore retains individual addressing, in which case software RAID as suggested for the Mac would work.
In Australia, we suffered a complete failure of imagination and called them Pedestrian Crossings.
But with our closer ties to the UK at the time, I think most would have known what a Zebra Crossing was.
It is a bit of a misnomer to compare the FOSS effort with communism. It is probably more productive to think of it in terms of something like barn-raising by the Amish (in these days and times) or countless other similar collective efforts throughout human history.
A community forms around a common objective, for the good of that community or as payment for past/future assistance by that same community when they were/are needed. hmmm - does that make sense?
Your statement regarding consolidation is quite correct, however I think it is both positive and negative; +'ve because FOSS never rests on it's laurals and is thus always seeking better ways to do things, -'ve for exactly the reason you state - resources are spread thin and energy wasted. Overall though I believe the positives outweigh the negatives.
But that is just MHO
Slashdot Mirror
oops - so he was... That would work :o)
I wonder how long it would take to remirror though?
You are assuming that each drive is individually addressable. You may find that the implementation is hidden from the host. If this is the case then it would be Raid 0 (Striping) and have a failure rate of MBTF/4. ie it is four times more likely to fail Or is it a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and therefore retains individual addressing, in which case software RAID as suggested for the Mac would work.
In Australia, we suffered a complete failure of imagination and called them Pedestrian Crossings. But with our closer ties to the UK at the time, I think most would have known what a Zebra Crossing was.
It is a bit of a misnomer to compare the FOSS effort with communism. It is probably more productive to think of it in terms of something like barn-raising by the Amish (in these days and times) or countless other similar collective efforts throughout human history.
A community forms around a common objective, for the good of that community or as payment for past/future assistance by that same community when they were/are needed. hmmm - does that make sense? Your statement regarding consolidation is quite correct, however I think it is both positive and negative; +'ve because FOSS never rests on it's laurals and is thus always seeking better ways to do things, -'ve for exactly the reason you state - resources are spread thin and energy wasted. Overall though I believe the positives outweigh the negatives. But that is just MHO