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- Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:37 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Quiet high-end ZFS NAS home file server, Dec '09 edition
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3243
I have never done this but the first thing I'd worry about would be the drives. You say you want to avoid virtualization because of the cache issue but my understanding is that this is an implementation/configuration issue rather than a problem with virtualization per se. And you'll have the same pr...
- Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: Super quiet small home server recommendation
- Replies: 49
- Views: 34629
- Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:06 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Atom energy efficiency champ: Intel D945GSEJT w/ Morex T1610
- Replies: 40
- Views: 34853
I'd be interested to know what resolutions are supported through DVI? 1080p monitors are becoming common but some boards don't support that resolution (officially anyway). My googleing led me to believe that, while the Asus B202 can do 1080p (the resolution), this board can't. Could someone who's ac...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:13 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung HD reliability vs. WD, Seagate
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12286
the ones at work are used in large RAID arrays that are constantly slammed with read/writes (image files ranging from small JPEGs to larger RAWs). Can you quantify "constantly slammed"? I've never pushed drives to their limits with large operations for any length of time as the bottlenecks have alw...
- Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:16 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung HD reliability vs. WD, Seagate
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12286
- Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:11 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung HD reliability vs. WD, Seagate
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12286
- Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:08 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10573
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:58 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10573
Re: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
The I in RAID stands for inexpensive, your card is a sunk cost unfortunately and it doesn't sound like performance would be an issue for your application.
Am I hinting now?
Am I hinting now?
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:28 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10573
Re: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
1. If a backup to disk exists and the equivalent tape is off site then I don't have to have someone drive to get the tape. Backup to disk could be reduce the downtime by the time needed to get to that tape. The worst case scenario is the vault tapes are stored in couldn't be opened for a day or two...
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:19 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10573
Re: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
Only if you don't keep drives for very long.dhanson865 wrote:The highest risk of failure is in the first 3 months of use.
Really? I'll avoid the software at all costs then. Thanks for the tip.dhanson865 wrote:deal with all the configuration hassles with backup exec. It would cost me a significant amount of man hours.
- Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:50 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10573
Re: Backup to disk storage in a business environment
Since we do daily backup to tape the backup to disk is merely for convenience of not having to mount a tape to restore. [...] If the drives are big enough I'll probably just do a RAID 1 this time instead of RAID 0 and call it good. Why are you planning to use RAID at all? Either you're not telling ...
- Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:43 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 347701
Nothing wrong with compression. Just don't count on it unless you know what you're doing or you might end up unable to backup for lack of space. Don't trust this Acronis thing blindly if you care about your data. It's good practice to try to restore ALL your data in order make sure your backup proce...
- Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:04 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Samsung F3 series - 500GB per platter - 7200RPM - 500GB/1TB
- Replies: 169
- Views: 347701
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:11 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4709
Re: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
performance isn't a big issue. I am mostly concerned with reliability So I doubt that performance as slow as the slower of the drives (for some operations) is going to be an issue, unless they are badly matched. I've temporarily put badly matched drives in a RAID1 array on occasion and I don't reca...
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:42 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4709
- Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:12 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4709
Re: Looking for recommendations on 1 TB drives
Also, I seem to recall reading somewhere that it is recommended that both drives should be from the same company and model. Is that true or should I get two different ones, such as one Western Digital and one Hitachi? It's not true. Best get totally different drives... hopefully they won't fail at ...
- Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:19 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: HDD Choice and Format
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1588
My suggestion is to forget general recommendations and to beware of snake oil. The research that could be useful is to determine what the bottlenecks are in YOUR usage. If you don't want to do that research, then my suggestion is to heed to KISS principle and keep your OS and applications on a singl...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:24 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: RAID5-like solutions without striping - a safer way?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10005
Parity isn't magic. Though RAID1 is the gold standard, you're not taking too many chances with two or three data drives and a parity drive. But 8 data drives per parity drive and no backup? n+1 drives means your risk is x to the power of n. I don't know how low you figure x is... This proprietary sy...
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:58 am
- Forum: Quiet Prebuilt, SFF and Barebones Systems
- Topic: fit-PC2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6924
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:58 am
- Forum: Notebook Systems
- Topic: Lenovo Thinkpad T61 fanless operation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 25130
- Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:03 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: What drive configuration in desktop if most data in NAS?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13586
Software RAID1 usually works fine if you know what you're doing. The most important thing to understand is that RAID is not a backup solution. Although it can help in some data loss scenarios, the main point of RAID1 is to save you time and effort when a drive fails. Is it worth the cost and trouble...
- Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:41 pm
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: comparing three 5400.2 drives
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2220
I finally got around to check the dates... surprisingly enough, my old 40G was actually manufactured a little under two monthes after that 80G (which must have been sitting on a shelf for a long time). The 60G is about a year newer. I guess it's possible Seagate upgraded their stuff during those two...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:43 am
- Forum: Silent Storage
- Topic: comparing three 5400.2 drives
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2220
comparing three 5400.2 drives
I had an opportunity to buy two cheap 5400.2 (2.5'' Seagates). I thought they'd be quiet based on what I read here. I didn't intend to compare them but the difference struck me and I listened more carefully (I've got no meter that can handle such faint noises): -one of them is a 60G (one platter acc...