Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 03:15:52 +0000 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Cc: FreeBSD-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bragging rights Message-ID: <42798FE8.30802@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <200505050246.j452kqqZ006459@dungeon.home> References: <4272AD64.3040001@chuckr.org> <200505050246.j452kqqZ006459@dungeon.home>
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Stephen McKay wrote: > On Friday, 29th April 2005, Chuck Robey wrote: > > >>The disks are very well worth noting. Three of them, organized into the >>boot section and the home section. The boot section is a 35G scsi, but >>it's 15K rpm rotation rate, which means it's blazing. This would be >>fast enough on it's own, but it's not on it's own. Tell me if you think >>it's the neatest, but I don't think so. My own encomium is given to the > > > Thank you for teaching me a new word. "Encomium" is not commonly used, > to say the least. :-) > > >>home section, which is formed from two 145G scsi disks. They are each >>only 10K rotation rate (faster than the fastest IDE, anyhow), but each >>one has it's own independent scsi bus, so that the fast that they're >>hooked together in a striped access via vinum means (in effect) I have a >>290G drive that's, I dunno, I have to get to test, but damned fast, let >>me tell you! > > > Personally, I would have mirrored the data disks instead of striping them. > Much slower, yes, but I'm tired of losing data when disks die. Even if > you have recent backups they are never recent enough to restore everything. > And I'm fairly certain that you're right on this. I'm too busy right this minute to give the project enough research to get it right ... I have two disks, each 145G, and which I wouldn't mind giving up up to 1/3 of the space, if I could, to reliability, I really want the speed, and I would NOT give up the entire disk, I don't need that sort of reliabilty, I just don't. So, would you mind tellme, what do you think I ought to do? > >>I'm very very proud of this system, Can you see why? > > > I'm pretty proud of my stuff too, but that's because I've made a pile of > cast-off junk work, sometimes in unlikely configurations. Are any of you > still using ISA bus scsi cards? I thought not! At least I've retired my > thin coax ethernet... > > Stephen.
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