on 7-2-2008 8:52 AM Victor Padro spake the following:

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@softdux.com <mailto:Rudi@softdux.com>> wrote:

   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>

       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


       ______________________________________________

   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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   Rudi Ahlers
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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.

 which are hold entirely for backing up my

servers, that include M$ SQL, M$ Exchange, CentOS LAMPs and CentOS MySQL boxes(about 500Mb daily using Samba and NFS)this box has been running about eight months now, also I have another one running on an old Dell P3 using a cheap VIA SATA PCI card and a CF to IDE adapter which holds 320Gb and 500Gb SATA HDs for my personal backup and haven't had any issue except for my electrical bill that increased a few mexican pesos only. The best thing it's you configure all via web, and there's no need to learn FreeBSD at all.

You should read the Knowledge base maybe it can help you more to make your mind:
http://www.freenaskb.info/kb/

hope it helps,

cu when i cu.

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