On 04/10/2011 03:50:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
I read about again and again is a RAID user who loses 1 drive and
then, while in the process of fixing the RAID, loses a second drive.
Most of us (myself
On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:
what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks?
Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB):
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
Best regards
Peter K
On Monday 11 April 2011 17:51:18 pk wrote:
On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:
what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks?
Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB):
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
Interesting.
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
Hello list,
I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't
notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks.
I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3
On Saturday 09 April 2011 22:01:18 Mark Knecht wrote:
Are you running a RAID?
Yes; mdadm RAID-1, with LVM on top, as in the Gentoo how-to:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
Are you looking for a little redundancy or a lot of redundancy?
I'm just speculating
On 10/4/2011, at 8:50am, Peter Humphrey wrote:
...
I'm just speculating at the moment, from a dabbler's point of view; what
benefits
would accrue from switching from RAID-1 to RAID-5 or above? And, in
particular,
what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks?
In your previous
On Sunday 10 April 2011 12:53:39 Stroller wrote:
On 10/4/2011, at 8:50am, Peter Humphrey wrote:
...
I'm just speculating at the moment, from a dabbler's point of view; what
benefits would accrue from switching from RAID-1 to RAID-5 or above?
And, in particular, what are the comparative
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Saturday 09 April 2011 22:01:18 Mark Knecht wrote:
Are you running a RAID?
Yes; mdadm RAID-1, with LVM on top, as in the Gentoo how-to:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
Are
On Sunday 10 April 2011 14:50:59 Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
More useful info - thanks to you too.
As for hardware RAID the risk I hear about there is that if the
controller itself fails then you need an identical backup controller
or you risk the possibility that you won't be able to recover
Peter Humphrey wrote:
I'm just speculating at the moment, from a dabbler's point of view; what
benefits
would accrue from switching from RAID-1 to RAID-5 or above? And, in particular,
what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks?
I have one 750Gb Samsung drive that I have had
On 10/4/2011, at 2:50pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
... loses 1 drive and
then, while in the process of fixing the RAID, loses a second drive.
Most of us (myself included) buy identical drives all at the same time
from the same vendor. This means all the drives were likely from the
same
Hello list,
I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't
notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks.
I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3 more to
make a more robust system, what advice would I receive?
--
Rgds
Peter
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
Hello list,
I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't
notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks.
I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3
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