If your looking for a backup system. You might check some of the Internet based storage offerings. Amazon S3 storage looks really attractive. There are other companies likes rsync.net etc...
Mike Miller On 12/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hotswap is a fun one -- I haven't worked with it in over 6 months, but > beware the stated "hotswapability" of a drive, cage, etc, compared to the > real capability of the controller, drivers, and OS :) Newegg has some good > cage deals, I like the one (I forget the brand though) where you can fit 5 > 3.5" drives vertically (er, sideways/upright) in a 3-drive-bay-tall volume. That's what I've been looking at. Right now I do all of my offsite backups to a usb drive. Slower than snot. I'd love to be able to use hot-swapable sata drives. > So are you planning this hotswap for a linux system, or, "cough, the other > one"? ROTFLAO. Hotswap in Windows? Wow. That is funny. I've see $1000 guaranteed hot-swapable SCSI drives crash windows.... I can't image getting sata to work. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ben Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 17:15:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Intel Motherboard forsale Hotswap is a fun one -- I haven't worked with it in over 6 months, but beware the stated "hotswapability" of a drive, cage, etc, compared to the real capability of the controller, drivers, and OS :) Newegg has some good cage deals, I like the one (I forget the brand though) where you can fit 5 3.5" drives vertically (er, sideways/upright) in a 3-drive-bay-tall volume. So are you planning this hotswap for a linux system, or, "cough, the other one"? Ben On 12/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you perceive hardware RAID as better than Linux's software > > RAID? Software RAID will work if you move the disks to a different > > system. Software RAID uses negligible CPU and memory bandwidth. > > Software RAID gets regular bug fixes for free when you upgrade > > your distro. > > The system in question is, um cough, not, cough, running, cough, linux, cough, cough. Whew. Who said that? > > Anyway.... On Linux I find software raid good for most simple setups and it has gotten SO much better than it was in the past. I still occastionally have problems with raid 1 arrays, especially when combined with LVM, that contain /boot, but most of they time it's fine. I still try to stick with true (processor and cache) hardware based raid controllers for raid 5 arrays or where I need better monitoring, or where I need super fast performance no matter what the system is doing. > > When I get a few minutes I'm going to tackle finding a hotswap sata cage and getting the whole thing to work... Anybody have an experience with hotswap + sata? Comments? > > Garl > _______________________________________________ > 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
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