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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Even if it's fake RAID5(RAID software)?
Didn't know that.
on 7-2-2008 8:52 AM Victor Padro spake the following:
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
nate wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
I think my action plan now will be to figure out how to
install CentOS
on a USB memory stick and make it boot on any machine
(making it easy to
replace if need be), and then to play around with the RAID a
bit and see
how well it works.
Another option you may want to consider is a PATA->CF adapter. I use
these for my OpenBSD firewalls and have them installed on 1GB CF
cards.
Performance should be better? Compatibility certainly is better,
there's
no way I could boot to USB off these aging P3-800 systems. The
CF cards
just show up as regular HDs
I use these ($7):
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-ADIDE2CF-B1&cpc=SCH
<http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-ADIDE2CF-B1&cpc=SCH>
Paired with Lexar CF cards. Not all CF is created equal, well
maybe it is
today. I found my Lexar CF cards were 5-10x faster than my
Kingston cards
of the same size, which surprised me. Not that I need high
performance in
firewalls that do no disk I/O but it was painful for the OS
install to
take hours(Kingston) instead of minutes(Lexar). Both pairs of CF
cards
are a few years old, today maybe everything out there is reasonably
fast.
At least with the above adapters be aware that those adapters above
do stick up. I think a 2U chassis can fit them(I have tons of
experience
in supermicro systems). But no guarantees. You may need another
adapter
or perhaps a male to female IDE cable so that you can mount it
another
way in the chassis.
I suppose you could even get two and run RAID.
Just don't put your swap on the flash if you can avoid it.
nate
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Thanx, nate
That's a good suggestion, but I think the USB memory sticks could
work better / more reliable, and will be easier to access in the
cabinet. I'll play around with it a bit and see how it works.
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Hi,
(I apologize in advance if someone thinks this is OT)
I've been reading this thread since it started, and what I could really say is you should go for freenas, it can be installed in a matter of minutes in a usb pendrive, I use it on a 2gb kingston one using an IBM eServer tower chassis, Intel D201GLY2 mainboard, 1Gb 667Mhz RAM, 2 HDs those are 750gb SATA in RAID5
2 drives in raid5? Then it is really only a raid 0, and will fail sooner or later.
Even if it's fake RAID5(RAID software)?
Didn't know that.
which are hold entirely for backing up my
servers, that include M$ SQL, M$ Exchange, CentOS LAMPs and CentOS MySQL boxes(about 500Mb daily using Samba and NFS)this box has been running about eight months now, also I have another one running on an old Dell P3 using a cheap VIA SATA PCI card and a CF to IDE adapter which holds 320Gb and 500Gb SATA HDs for my personal backup and haven't had any issue except for my electrical bill that increased a few mexican pesos only. The best thing it's you configure all via web, and there's no need to learn FreeBSD at all.------------------------------------------------------------------------
You should read the Knowledge base maybe it can help you more to make your mind:
http://www.freenaskb.info/kb/
hope it helps,
cu when i cu.
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