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...pecifically I''m looking to buy Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALS 1TB drives [1]. Does anyone have any experience with these drives? If this is the wrong way to go, does anyone have a recommendation for 1TB drives I can get for <= 90$? [1] http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=793 Thanks for any help, -- - Patrick Donnelly

Is there any tool for analysing the MBR on a computer? I know one can just dd it and see roughly what it contains. But surely one should be able to work out the exact content of the MBR and the neighbouring sectors read at boot time? I had a difficult day, probably due to my ignorance, which would have been solved at once by such a tool. I had taken one of three hard disks out of my home server

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:52:09PM -0400, John R. Huston wrote: > Hi, I am not very familiar with using mailing lists so if I have made > a mistake in the format or scope of the message please correct me. I > am pretty desperate for an answer by now so any help at all is really > very appreciated. > > I have a Shuttle SD30G2 computer (Specs: >

Like many others, I am looking to put together a SOHO NAS based on ZFS/CIFS. The plan is 6 x 1TB drives in RAIDZ2 configuration, driven via mobo with 6 SATA ports. I''ve read most, if not all, of the threads here, as well as sbredon''s excellent article on building a home NAS, yet I still have a number of unanswered questions. I was leaning heavily towards the M2N-E for a while,