On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Then I will have to backup ASAP and re install the Array in Raid1, thank you scott.
But the odd thing its that I've never had any errors regarding RAID or even HDs.
Will recheck my config.
on 7-2-2008 3:14 PM Victor Padro spake the following:
Raid 5 need a minimum of 3 drives. The only way to get 2 drives in software raid is to create the array with the "missing" statement.
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:<mailto:Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx
on 7-2-2008 8:52 AM Victor Padro spake the following:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rudi Ahlers
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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>
<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.
With only 2 drives, you have a stripe with a failed parity.
So 2 drives is already missing one, and the next failure is doom.
Raid 1 (mirror) is fine with 2 drives.
Then I will have to backup ASAP and re install the Array in Raid1, thank you scott.
But the odd thing its that I've never had any errors regarding RAID or even HDs.
Will recheck my config.
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