Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-25 Thread aragonx
I would like to thank everyone for their advice. After considering my situation, I decided to try the software RAID 5 and see what happened. I put my system drive (500GB Western Digital) plus 4 of the RAID drives (750GB Samsung) on the motherboard. One RAID drive is on a PCI-E SATA controller

Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework my home server's storage. Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set things up. My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded good until I started

Re: Software RAID 5 or something else?

2009-01-23 Thread aragonx
1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give me the performance I want? That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play move the bottleneck. It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is at

Will Fedora 9 get 2.6.28?

2009-01-20 Thread aragonx
Hello all, The subject says it all really. I'm running Fedora 9 and want to use EXT4. I realize there is support in the 2.6.27 but I've read that all the goddies are not in until 2.6.28. So, will Fedora 9 get it or do I have to upgrade to Fedora 10? Is anyone using EXT4 and software RAIDs

[OT] Bash/Awk/Sed email list

2008-10-14 Thread aragonx
I have been toying with the idea of creating a scripting mailing list. Does anyone know if one already exists? If not, is it a good idea? If so, would you use it? If so, should it be an email list or a message board? There does seem to be a lot of scripting questions on this list. Perhaps a

Re: OT Electronics Help

2008-09-11 Thread aragonx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Now THIS is the kind of geeky response I was hoping for. A good first step. Now I just need to control the current. :) ok. this type of controlling is what i have done for past 30 years, but in commercial and

Re: Zimbra or something else

2008-09-09 Thread aragonx
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:56:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in search of a new groupware application. I am currently using egroupware. It works okay but there is a lot I don't like about it. So, I'm looking for another solution. Zimbra seems to be the

Zimbra or something else

2008-09-05 Thread aragonx
I'm in search of a new groupware application. I am currently using egroupware. It works okay but there is a lot I don't like about it. So, I'm looking for another solution. Zimbra seems to be the 'best of breed'. However, I can not find the source code for it. It had binary packages but only

OT Electronics Help

2008-08-25 Thread aragonx
Okay so this is way off topic but I need some help. I tried doing a Google search but I don't know enough to get my query right. I have several external components that I would like to come on when my computer comes on. I would also like them to go off when my computer goes off. Some sort of

Re: OT Electronics Help

2008-08-25 Thread aragonx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay so this is way off topic but I need some help. I tried doing a Google search but I don't know enough to get my query right. I have several external components that I would like to come on when my computer comes on. I would also like them to go off when my

Re: OT Electronics Help

2008-08-25 Thread aragonx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay so this is way off topic but I need some help. I tried doing a Google search but I don't know enough to get my query right. I have several external components that I would like to come on when my computer comes on. I would also like them to go off when my

Re: OT Electronics Help

2008-08-25 Thread aragonx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay so this is way off topic but I need some help. I tried doing a Google search but I don't know enough to get my query right. I have several external components that I would like to come on when my computer comes on. I would also like them to go off when my