[Eug-lug] Switch list
B. Gallagher
bilbobaggab at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 08:23:09 PST 2007
I do understand that the direction of technology flow seems to be into
the use of external HDD's for back-up so maybe I'm beating a dead horse
here. I bought an External HDD shell for $25 and intend to throw a 500
GB Seagate internal in there (right now it has that noisy 30 GB Maxtor,
that I'm waiting to see die, till I get the money.)
I'm talking about softRAID and a home user. I guess RAID 1 is a moot
point, but what about RAID 0? Isn't there a performance boost or is
this a lot of complexity for not much performance gain? This is
practice, not theory, so its fair for me to ask. What's your experience?
Brian
P.S. Technology freefall...it is hard for me to get use to.
LinuxRocks! wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:37:39AM -0800, B. Gallagher wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:37:39 -0800
>> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Switch list
>> From: "B. Gallagher" <bilbobaggab at gmail.com>
>>
>> I could be into that. I was trying to setup a RAID 1 for Ubuntu. I
>> found it easier for FC 4 (must be the way the info is displayed.) My
>> efforts were half-hearted, so I'll try again to make that work before I
>> ask for any help.
>>
>> I may have a collection of matched drives (WD 7.5 - 20 GB) for people to
>> have as experimenters. I need to know the disaster recovery routine for
>> when one of these mirrored drives fails. I am using new Seagate drives
>> so I don't think about it much, but I really don't know how to recover.
>> Something like use the remaining (working) drive to repeat the RAID
>> setup process.
>>
>> An XP RAID 0 was easy to setup once I saw the F6 (F2, can't remember?)
>> third party prompt, but Linux looks even easier, once you get the hang
>> of it, and I feel that people would be into this for data safety.
>>
>
> I have a PCI IDE raid controller card that im not using... I give up on
> raid. regular drives work fine for my needs.
>
>
>> Brian
>>
>> P.S. the answer to my FAT32 question was indirectly answered in earlier
>> posts of a month ago (i.e. use a USB external HDD and be done with it.)
>> Don't mind me if I lurk more and post less, its time to take the
>> training wheels off (I need to do more web research before I post stupid
>> questions.)
>>
>
> Thats what I usually do. a lot of times the 1GB SD card for my
> camera/mp3 player does the trick, If I have to do a lot of stuff, i
> have a USB HDD. I rarely use CD/DVD's anymore.
>
> Jamie
>
> player works fine
>
>> LinuxRocks! wrote:
>>
>>> You know, we used to do that. Then we backed it up with weely clincs. If
>>> we plan in advance, take advantage of free publicity, we could get quite
>>> the draw, and help a lot of people out. We havnt done one in like 5
>>> years, so we are probably about due.
>>>
>>> Jamie
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:14:43PM -0800, Mike Cherba wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Switch list
>>>> From: Mike Cherba <mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com>
>>>> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
>>>> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:14:43 -0800
>>>> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we should organize an ubuntu installfest for those interested in
>>>> NOT moving to Vista.
>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>> While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy
>>>> making mistakes and becoming superior. -- Henry C. Link
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:21 -0800, B. Gallagher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Many people, daunted by Vista's hardware requirements and product
>>>>> activation issues, claim on various boards how they plan to "switch to
>>>>> Linux."
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this is even simpler.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mr O wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Well thought and simple.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This:
>>>>>> http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=
>>>>>> goes on to show what it is like for a dedicated Windows user to
>>>>>> try linux. Admittedly, the guy is a n00b.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- Mike Cherba <mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ran across this on bbspot this evening. Thought I 'd poke it
>>>>>>> to the
>>>>>>> list for folks to check out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://popey.com/The_Truth_About_Switching
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart
>>>>>>> death,
>>>>>>> there's brain death, and there's being off the network. ---
>>>>>>> Guy Almes
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