From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: [9fans] robust heterogenous home file server?
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Thu,  9 Aug 2007 19:02:19 +0200
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> to make something smaller than the 1U sr0420, one would need
> to have fewer than 4 disks.  4 disks is unfortunately the minimum
> required for raid5+1 hot spare.

I hope this doesn't sound like teaching grandma to suck eggs, but
would laptop-sized disks not help at least with dimensions, I'm not
sure about price?

++L