[Eug-lug] OT: Intel Motherboard forsale

[Michael Miller]

If your looking for a backup system.  You might check some of the
Internet based storage offerings.  Amazon S3 storage looks really
attractive.  There are other companies likes rsync.net etc...

Mike Miller

On 12/2/06, badd_karma at comcast.net <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Hotswap is a fun one -- I haven't worked with it in over 6 months, but
> > beware the stated "hotswapability" of a drive, cage, etc, compared to the
> > real capability of the controller, drivers, and OS :)  Newegg has some
> good
> > cage deals, I like the one (I forget the brand though) where you can fit 5
> > 3.5" drives vertically (er, sideways/upright) in a 3-drive-bay-tall
> volume.
>
> That's what I've been looking at. Right now I do all of my offsite backups
> to a usb drive. Slower than snot. I'd love to be able to use hot-swapable
> sata drives.
>
> > So are you planning this hotswap for a linux system, or, "cough, the other
> > one"?
>
> ROTFLAO. Hotswap in Windows? Wow. That is funny. I've see $1000 guaranteed
> hot-swapable SCSI drives crash windows.... I can't image getting sata to
> work.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:15:11 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Intel Motherboard forsale
> Hotswap is a fun one -- I haven't worked with it in over 6 months, but
> beware the stated "hotswapability" of a drive, cage, etc, compared to the
> real capability of the controller, drivers, and OS :)  Newegg has some good
> cage deals, I like the one (I forget the brand though) where you can fit 5
> 3.5" drives vertically (er, sideways/upright) in a 3-drive-bay-tall volume.
>
> So are you planning this hotswap for a linux system, or, "cough, the other
> one"?
>
>      Ben
>
>
>  On 12/1/06, badd_karma at comcast.net <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > How do you perceive hardware RAID as better than Linux's software
> > > RAID?  Software RAID will work if you move the disks to a different
> > > system.  Software RAID uses negligible CPU and memory bandwidth.
> > > Software RAID gets regular bug fixes for free when you upgrade
> > > your distro.
> >
> > The system in question is, um cough, not,  cough, running, cough, linux,
> cough, cough. Whew. Who said that?
> >
> > Anyway.... On Linux I find software raid good for most simple setups and
> it has gotten SO much better than it was in the past. I still occastionally
> have problems with raid 1 arrays, especially when combined with LVM, that
> contain /boot, but most of they time it's fine. I still try to stick with
> true (processor and cache) hardware based raid controllers for raid 5 arrays
> or where I need better monitoring, or where I need super fast performance no
> matter what the system is doing.
> >
> > When I get a few minutes I'm going to tackle finding a hotswap sata cage
> and getting the whole thing to work... Anybody have an experience with
> hotswap + sata? Comments?
> >
> > Garl
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