On Montag 15 Dezember 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:04:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
LVM's support for mirroring and striping is exceptionally crude to say
the least. You will also have problems if your stripes do not align with
the underlying volume. Seeing as LVM is
Grant,
I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this
list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that
partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do
resizing on a software RAID but will (or should!) on hardware RAID. If
you go with
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:59:39 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
So it's fair to say you don't like MB RAID, then? ;-)
I think it's a great idea, just one that no one seems to have
implemented yet ...
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On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:04:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
LVM's support for mirroring and striping is exceptionally crude to say
the least. You will also have problems if your stripes do not align with
the underlying volume. Seeing as LVM is designed to make volume
management easier and RAID
On Monday 15 December 2008 18:48:26 Grant wrote:
Grant,
I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this
list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that
partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do
resizing on a software RAID but will
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant,
I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this
list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that
partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do
resizing on a software
I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this
list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that
partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do
resizing on a software RAID but will (or should!) on hardware RAID. If
you go with software
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant,
I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this
list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that
partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do
resizing on a software
On Monday 15 December 2008 20:38:59 Mark Knecht wrote:
One reason to be concerned about ANY software RAID solution would be
that when you boot something like a gparted CD to do some work you
won't necessarily have the right driver on the CD so you won't be able
to see the devices. A true
Grant schrieb:
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to
expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and
heat.
So you don't care about
On Sunday 14 December 2008 12:47:14 Florian Philipp wrote:
Then I would use it (and the older disk) in an LVM volume group. LVM
also supports mirroring (like RAID1) and striping (like RAID0) on a
per-volume basis. That means that you could keep most of your data
somewhere on the TB disk and
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
Out of space with 320G? Have you considered putting your multimedia in
an external hard drive?
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to
expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and
heat.
So you don't care about security,
On 14 Dec 2008, at 02:49, Grant wrote:
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to
expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and
heat.
On 14 Dec 2008, at 16:31, Grant wrote:
...
A RAID won't cause more heat or noise than a second drive but it
will also
How much perceived noise does a second drive create?
See my other reply.
I'd say if you don't care about redundancy, you should go for a
single 1TB
disk. I'd prefer a
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to
expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and
heat.
RAID 0 will be twice as fast as any
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
Out of space with 320G? Have you considered putting your multimedia in
an external hard drive?
What would be the benefit
Grant wrote:
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to
expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and
heat.
RAID 0 will be
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:36:35 -0800, Grant wrote:
This system
is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea
Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case?
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This system
is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea
Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case?
That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with
sound. The only fans are the CPU fan and power supply fan. My video
card blew a capacitor the
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:42:30 -0800, Grant wrote:
Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case?
That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with
sound.
I wasn't suggesting putting the insulation over the air vents ;-)
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To err is human; to
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote:
This system
is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea
Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case?
That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with
sound. The only fans are the CPU fan and power
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote:
This system
is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea
Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case?
That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to
expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and
heat.
RAID 0 will be twice as fast as any
On another system which must be about 10 years old, I'd like to
replace the IDE hard drive with a high capacity drive. High-capacity
IDE drives are pretty much non-existent on newegg.com, but I'd like to
find one around 500GB. Is moving that system over to the new drive as
simple as
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
My desktop currently runs one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140
I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to
expand. The factors to consider are cost,
on 12/15/2008 02:32 AM Grant wrote the following:
On another system which must be about 10 years old, I'd like to
replace the IDE hard drive with a high capacity drive. High-capacity
IDE drives are pretty much non-existent on newegg.com, but I'd like to
find one around 500GB. Is moving that
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