I think what he said was if you are doing software raid don't expect it to be super fast. If it has on board RAID don't expect it to work like a SCSI HBA that can do RAID 0,1,5 with 512 megabytes or 1gigbyte of cache. If are doing read and write operations that don't go on for ever and or fill up what cache if any that your motherboard has for RAID support or software raid in Linux you should be fine. I have Dual PII 333 machine that I use software raid and LVM and it does what I need it to do just fine. Or do I have all three drives in a LVM group.. I can't remember and it is still packed up waiting for me to move.
Michael Miller On 3/15/06, Brian Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't even know Intel made a NIC till Michael Miller mentioned it. It > makes sense, Intel CPU with a Intel MB, etc., as you mentioned before. > > That Raid is an on-board Promise chipset. I don't want headaches. Are you > saying that if it works, it could be spotty; or, are you saying that if it > works, and I leave it alone, it will be ok? These dual Seagate drives in a > raid 1 is my backup strategy for all of my work. It cannot be flaky! > > This Grad student has 10+ years of Linux experience. He says that OS X has > excellent integration with FOSS. He gives me the impression that he knows > his stuff. > > I took a hammer to that 40G Maxtor and thru it in the trash. I got a 30G > Maxtor that occasionally squeals like chalk on a blackboard at startup. I > use it as a second drive to hold oggs. An IT guy told me it was a spindle > issue, the 40G made a couple of clicks and that was it. It was dead on > reboot. > > So, what are you doing building a wall? > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Mr O > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:58 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] been out of touch > > > FWIW, Realtek 8139's almost always work with the exception of > the occasional D-Link. Of course, as stated before, you go Intel > on your NIC and you can't go wrong. > > You really trust a CS grad student to tell you what to buy? Eek. > > Hope that RAID isn't onboard. Don't expect it to be pretty if it > is. Just like modems, if it ain't hardware based, don't waste > too much time on it. As for drives, if they were the slimline > Maxtor drives I'll take them. My collection is only about 20 > right now. Not quite enough to create something with yet. > > That be all, > Mr O. > > --- Brian Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was unclear. Ubuntu loves the Realtek (RTL8139.) I was > > laughing about > > the Netgear (FA310TX.) I have three of those so I'm glad to > > hear that they > > work. I had a problem with the FA310TX and FC2 a while back > > where it was > > taking 15 min for Samba to find the Windows shared file. > > > > Recently I was telling my neighbor about my success with > > Ubuntu and his > > gamer friend stated matter-o-factly "Samba is historically > > spotty." O, now > > you tell me! These CS grad students have convinced me that my > > next computer > > will be a MAC laptop. > > > I already have the final implementation hardware: ASUS > > AV7333 /w RAID > > support, dual 160GB seagate drives, etcetera. I had a hard > > drive crash a > > year ago and lost some data. That's what I get for buying > > Maxtor. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
