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. 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!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080702/559ff14d/attachment-0005.sig>