From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 04:40:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C351616A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 04:40:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8381043D6E for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 04:40:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.195] (july.chuckr.org [66.92.151.195]) by april.chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92682120D2; Wed, 4 May 2005 23:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42798FE8.30802@chuckr.org> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 03:15:52 +0000 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050316) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen McKay References: <4272AD64.3040001@chuckr.org> <200505050246.j452kqqZ006459@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <200505050246.j452kqqZ006459@dungeon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bragging rights X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 04:40:45 -0000 Stephen McKay wrote: > On Friday, 29th April 2005, Chuck Robey wrote: > > >>The disks are very well worth noting. Three of them, organized into the >>boot section and the home section. The boot section is a 35G scsi, but >>it's 15K rpm rotation rate, which means it's blazing. This would be >>fast enough on it's own, but it's not on it's own. Tell me if you think >>it's the neatest, but I don't think so. My own encomium is given to the > > > Thank you for teaching me a new word. "Encomium" is not commonly used, > to say the least. :-) > > >>home section, which is formed from two 145G scsi disks. They are each >>only 10K rotation rate (faster than the fastest IDE, anyhow), but each >>one has it's own independent scsi bus, so that the fast that they're >>hooked together in a striped access via vinum means (in effect) I have a >>290G drive that's, I dunno, I have to get to test, but damned fast, let >>me tell you! > > > Personally, I would have mirrored the data disks instead of striping them. > Much slower, yes, but I'm tired of losing data when disks die. Even if > you have recent backups they are never recent enough to restore everything. > And I'm fairly certain that you're right on this. I'm too busy right this minute to give the project enough research to get it right ... I have two disks, each 145G, and which I wouldn't mind giving up up to 1/3 of the space, if I could, to reliability, I really want the speed, and I would NOT give up the entire disk, I don't need that sort of reliabilty, I just don't. So, would you mind tellme, what do you think I ought to do? > >>I'm very very proud of this system, Can you see why? > > > I'm pretty proud of my stuff too, but that's because I've made a pile of > cast-off junk work, sometimes in unlikely configurations. Are any of you > still using ISA bus scsi cards? I thought not! At least I've retired my > thin coax ethernet... > > Stephen.