this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
172 points (100.0% liked)

retrocomputing

5465 readers
79 users here now

Discussions on vintage and retrocomputing

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
SDF@lemmy.sdf.org
cognitivegears@lemmy.sdf.org
Penkster@lemmy.sdf.org
172
IBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today — unit weighed more than a ton, 50 platters ran at 1,200 RPM (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

RAID0 doesn't give you any protection or redundancy, just speed.

[–] rooster_butt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh shit, I got my raids confused, I was thinking mirrored drives (I see now that's RAID1). I haven't used hardware raid in years, current set up is using unraid.