On Tuesday 19 June 2007 10:35:47 David Greaves wrote: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Why dontcha just cut all the "look how big my ePenis is" chatter and tell > > us what you wanna do? > > Nobody gives a rat if your ultra1337 sound cards needs a 10 megawatt > > power supply. > > Chill Dexter. > > > How many faults have you seen on this list attributed to poor PSUs? > How many people whinge about the performance of their controllers/setups > 'cos they find out _after_ they bought them just how naff they are? A 750W supply doesn't increase server stability - that's what redundant PSUs are for. Plus: there are sh!tty 750W-PSUs otu there as well - numbers mean jack. > > Sure he went a bit OTT in the description - but if you'd rather see "Hey > dudez, what do I need for a really quick server" then #linux is good :) > > He's clearly new to linux, (and granted, maybe a bit over-excited by > hardware!) but give the guy a break. > > He very clearly told us what he wanted to do in the QUESTIONs bit. Could have done right from the start instead of immersing into "Vista", "X-Fi" "8800" and "Radeon". > And don't think too badly of Dexter, he's usually OK. Guess I had a newbie overdose since migrating the desktop box to Kubuntu. > David > > PS, Dex, I wonder who posted these noobie sounding question in April last > year: > > I'm currently planning my first raid array. > I intend to go for softraid (budget's the limiting factor), not sure about > 5 or 6 yet. > > Plan so far: build a raid5 from 3 disks, later add a disk and reconf to > raid6. Question: is that possible at all? Can a raid5 be reconfed to a > raid6 with raidreconf? > Next Question: how stable is it? Will I likely get away without making > backups or is there like a 10% chance of failure? > Other precautions advised? Yes? What about that? All tech questions regarding file servers and raid setups on Linux. Don't see how I go about how my Radeon makes the 10k barrier in 3Dmark. Nuff said. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
