I am interested in your experience with the server and sata drives. Seagate has new firmware for their 1.5TB drives (5 year warrantee) that supposedly fixes the problems they had - they would 'go to sleep' for 30 seconds now and then.
I am considering building a RAID5 NAS using FreeNAS to avoid problems with Linux/windows, etc. I would install 5 Seagate 1.5 TB drives for data and boot from a USB drive. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gil Hale To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:05 AM Subject: RE: SCSI drives and VFP data tables Unfortunately with Linux I found (supposedly) I can't have RAID5, so I am opting for RAID1, and the eSATA card supports hot swapping. So I have a 3rd 250Gb hot swap HDD for the boot drive set in case one HDD fails, and a 3rd 1.5Tg Seagate Freeagent Extreme external eSATA/USB2/Firewire HDD for the same reason. Warranties be damned if I have to wait a week to get a replacement part <g>. I never ran RAID1 before, so this will be interesting from both a performance and failure recovery perspective (I will test the hot swap and data striping capabilities before putting the Server into production). Oh, setup is going to be interesting also as I plan to run the Server under Ubuntu Server v-8.04 (may 8.10, have not decided yet). The Server OS options from Dell were Windows, Red Hat or Suse - but not Ubuntu. If I run into a pinch with Ubuntu I guess it is back to Suse for that one machine, which is fine although it does have an annual fee. Could be worse, I could have had Windows shoved down my throat (again). --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/026001c980af$19083450$8600a...@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
