"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion." "Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente servidas" On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > on 7-2-2008 8:52 AM Victor Padro spake the following: > >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com <mailto: >> Rudi at 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. >> >> >> -- >> Kind Regards >> Rudi Ahlers >> CEO, SoftDux >> >> Web: http://www.SoftDux.com >> Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or >> other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for >> Web Hosting stuff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> >> 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. > Even if it's fake RAID5(RAID software)? Didn't know that. > > 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. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > -- > MailScanner is like deodorant... > You hope everybody uses it, and > you notice quickly if they don't!!!! > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080702/96f0afd5/attachment-0003.html>