[Discuss] Travelling abroad taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Matt Shields
I have buildout a datacenter in London in January and I've ordered everything I need directly to the datacenter because of everything I've heard about dealing with customs. The only exception of a single piece of equipment we forgot that probably won't make it if I ship it now (a Cisco serial

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:36:28AM -0500, Matt Shields wrote: I have buildout a datacenter in London in January and I've ordered everything I need directly to the datacenter because of everything I've heard about dealing with customs. The only exception of a single piece of equipment we

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
Just a point of opinion. UPS tends to be better for international than FedEx, at least in my experience. On 12/31/2012 11:02 AM, Mark Woodward wrote: What am I missing? Why can't you FedEx it? On 12/31/2012 10:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote: I have buildout a datacenter in London in January and

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Matt Shields
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.comwrote: What am I missing? Why can't you FedEx it? On 12/31/2012 10:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote: I have buildout a datacenter in London in January and I've ordered everything I need directly to the datacenter because of

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Woodward
On 12/31/2012 12:03 PM, Matt Shields wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: What am I missing? Why can't you FedEx it? On 12/31/2012 10:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote: I have buildout a datacenter in London

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 12/31/2012 12:03 PM, Matt Shields wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.comwrote: What am I missing? Why can't you FedEx it? On 12/31/2012 10:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote: I have buildout a datacenter in London in January and I've ordered everything I

[Discuss] Home NAS redux

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Woodward
I have a D-Link DNS-321, its OK as a backup system. Its small and energy efficient, all that nice stuff, but with drive mirroring, it is SLOW as a dog, and a slow dog at that. 5~10 megabyte per second over 1gb ethernet is painful. I'm considering software raid 5, 3x2TB disks to put me at 4TB

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Rich Braun
I learned something about international shipping this year. Know why we don't make much in the USA anymore? Because a couple of companies have built an oligopoly of shipping services: the costs are incredible, and the paperwork burden is horrendous. I moved into a house vacated by a Taiwanese

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2012-12-31 Thread Rich Pieri
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:18:15 -0500 Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I'm considering software raid 5, Software RAID 5 and it's variants are the opposite of performance. If you want performance with redundancy then use RAID 1+0. Better to use ZFS or Btrfs with mirrored data and metadata.

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2012-12-31 Thread Jonathan M. Prigot
Not necessarily. We use a proprietary RAID system that does provide for it. There are three phases covered: Park heads after x minutes, Reduce disk speed after y minutes, and Spin down the disks after z minutes. That last is good for our spare disks so that they have no wear until needed. Haven't

Re: [Discuss] GPL and code linkages

2012-12-31 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:04:30PM -0500, MBR wrote: Just a couple of comments. On 12/30/2012 12:25 PM, Derek Martin wrote: The Drupal people are wrong, and this is the nature of their mistake. I never said anything about what interpretation others in the Drupal community put on this.

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2012-12-31 Thread Rich Pieri
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:48:21 -0500 Jonathan M. Prigot jpri...@verizon.net wrote: Not necessarily. We use a proprietary RAID system that does provide for it. There are three phases covered: Park heads after x minutes, Reduce disk speed after y minutes, and Spin down the disks after z Sure, but

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2012-12-31 Thread Daniel Hagerty
Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com writes: (non-laptop) hardware? I know you can use hdparm for the disk spindown, but does Wake-On-Lan really work? Yes, it does; I have two machines I use it with on a regular basis. One is a mac, the other is a generic pc from 2005 or so. The mac in

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2012-12-31 Thread Tom Metro
Mark Woodward wrote: I sort of like having a web interface to the DLINK-321, are there any similar projects for Linux? Not a lot of choices: Openfiler (CentOS based) http://www.openfiler.com/ NASLite (commercial) http://www.serverelements.com/ though there are a pile of small business servers