One of the benefits of RAID is that failed drives can be pulled out of the array and replaced with good media.
If you eliminate that, all you have is a drive with a longer MTBF. (Not quite as much as you'd expect, though, since now there are more drives which can fail). In your case, you'd only be protected from one failure. Basically, that's what IBM drives do now, with the SMART failure detection technology telling you when the drive's about to flake.
The idea is sound, though. Use small drive bays, but multiple disks. It sounds like you could have a modular drive bay kind of idea, only with multiple slots instead of just one. You'd have to put the array electronics in the drive bay, though. I wonder how feasible that is?
All of the arrays that can do this are much much bigger than what you're talking about. But hey, that's what the miniaturization magicians are for!
I'd still feel bad about paying for 150GB and only getting 75MB of storage, though. Every RAID I've ever run has had at least 5 disks, keeping 80% of total drive capacity.
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One of the benefits of RAID is that failed drives can be pulled out of the array and replaced with good media.
If you eliminate that, all you have is a drive with a longer MTBF. (Not quite as much as you'd expect, though, since now there are more drives which can fail). In your case, you'd only be protected from one failure. Basically, that's what IBM drives do now, with the SMART failure detection technology telling you when the drive's about to flake.
The idea is sound, though. Use small drive bays, but multiple disks. It sounds like you could have a modular drive bay kind of idea, only with multiple slots instead of just one. You'd have to put the array electronics in the drive bay, though. I wonder how feasible that is?
All of the arrays that can do this are much much bigger than what you're talking about. But hey, that's what the miniaturization magicians are for!
I'd still feel bad about paying for 150GB and only getting 75MB of storage, though. Every RAID I've ever run has had at least 5 disks, keeping 80% of total drive capacity.