[Asterisk-Users] Re: ultra-cheap asterisk box -> Small Biz Robust Asterisk Solution - SBRAS

[Brian Capouch]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2004 12:01, Adthrawn wrote:
> 
>>Spell out RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Bingo.
> 
> 
> That's "Independent Disks".  It's the independence of each spindle that
> is valued, not the cost proposition.  If one spindle goes, it's not all
> of your data which goes with it.  Consider that many (most?) SCSI disks
> aren't inexpensive.
> 

The original meaning of the acronym was "Inexpensive," IIRC.  It was 
later changed to allow either meaning of the word.  I just checked; it 
is "inexpensive" in both of my CS architecture textbooks.

A nit, I know, but I don't want Adthrawn to get a complex :-)

B.