> > Redundant Array of "Independent" Disks > > > No, Andy was right... It's inexpensive. It come from back in the day when > a 1 GIG drive, for example, was << in price than, say, a 10 GIG drive. > So, you could maybe buy 20 1 GB drives for the price of a single 10 GB. Actually, I think it's inexpensive as in "uses PC disks, rather than IBM DASD" [those 14"-platter refrigerator-sized units]. so you can buy a stack of 100MB drives at $500/ea, instead of a 1GB drive at $100,000. (ok, I pulled those figures out of my ass; but they may be vaguely reasonable for the time). too far ancient history for most of us. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org