Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3/4 Hard Drive Size?

["Simon Liddicott" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jale" <jale@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3/4 Hard Drive Size?


>
> >I would like to know the maximum hard drive size that can be installed in
a
> >Raq3/4. also,
>
> I have 30gigs in my RAQ3i - but only see 20gig, probably since I did not
do
> a reinstall, just dd'd to them to get them running
>
> >the Makes and models if poss? I beleive Maxtor are not good.
> >Also Seagate is best and 80 gig is the largest. Is this true?
>
> Depends upon if you ask Maxtor or Seagate. All IDE drives are mass
> produced, have little quality control and will die quickly if you have no
> backups. If you have good backups, you hard drives will stay running, no
> matter the brand (Murphie's law of hard drives). Buy the ones that meet
the
> specs you want at the lowest price ... the biggest performance booster is
> usually a large drive cache built onto the drives. But to say one is
better
> than the other is totally bogus, they are all unreliable if you have a bad
> one, others, from ANY manufacturer, will stay running for years. There is
> no way to tell which is better, it is all pot luck.
>
> Just watch you don't overload your power supply with drives that draw too
> much current (amperage), such as 7200RPM drives should be not used in a
> Raq3, not sure of the other Raqs limitations on this.
>


make sure you download the latest restore cd - i had a hdd problem of 30GB
being seen as six until i used the latest CD.

simon