Huh. That's interesting.. -- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com
Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ James Kuhns wrote: > Basically it's a software based NAS implemented with a modified RAID 4 > (striping removed) system. > > - Slackware based - relatively low hardware requirements > - Drive types do not have to match - mix and match SATA and PATA > - Drive sizes do not have to be the same - as long as the biggest is made > the parity drive > - Boots off of a USB stick - allowing all drives to be part of the array > (wish it would allow CD boots though) > - 1 drive fault tolerance - but you don't lose all of the data if you lose > more than 1 drive (see next point) > - Each disc has a standalone ext2 file system on it - if you lose 2 drives, > the array is gone but the data on the remaining drives is still accessible > - Can quickly expand by just adding drives (no need to restripe - just > recompute the parity) > - Only spins up needed drives > - Write speed is ok - not really critical for a media server (once the > data's on there you tend not to write to it again) > - Read speed is on par with 5 or 6 (sometimes better if multiple reads are > being made to drives on different controllers) > > I was skeptical of a software based raid system, but decided to try it after > I lost about 2 TB of dvd rips (yes, I own the physical discs) due to a flaky > RAID 5 card (it mistimed a series of writes at the very worst possible time > - destroyed an NTFS volume). After using it for about 8 months now (using > the flaky RAID 5 card running in JBOD mode and the SATA connectors on the > MOBO), I swear by it when used for what it was intended for - I wouldn't > want to run a mission critical high write database on it. I've only had one > hiccup with it and it was hardware based (two drives overheated from a > faulty cooling fan I didn't notice until it was too late, one was the parity > drive) - I was able to replace the faulty drives and build a new array using > the remaining good drives (only lost the data off the one bad non-parity > drive). > > Link to site: http://lime-technology.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Dustin Puryear > Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time. > > unRAID server? What is that? I'm curious. > > -- > Dustin Puryear > President and Sr. Consultant > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > 225-706-8414 x112 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > James Kuhns wrote: >> Giving home and work choices only is a bit limiting... >> >> main home/work machine (same machine - nice to work from home) - Vista > with >> VM sessions for XP, Windows Server 2000, and Windows Server 2003 > (depending >> on what environment I have to dev for - I work for a Microsoft shop) >> >> servers (at home): Windows Server 2003 (domain), Windows Server 2000 >> (running various VM sessions of 2000/2003 - again depending on current > dev), >> debian (dns, http, smtp, etc. - basically everything that keeps my network >> running) >> >> media network: 1 unRAID server (based on slackware) holding my media, 1 XP >> machine holding the database/index for my media, 2 Vista clients for >> viewing/listening to media (via TVs) >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf >> Of willhill >> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time. >> >> What is your primary desktop OS? >> 1. At home >> 2. 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