On 11/5/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/5/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been using VMware server for playing with OSes. Solaris works well ...
Hmmm, that's a good thought. I went to all the trouble of setting
up the nifty multi-boot system, and I think it's blinded me. I keep
ignoring virtualization. Hammer myopia. Thanks for the nudge. :)
>> A third disk would also get the job done, but this is a SATA system
>> and I don't have any extra SATA disks.
>
> You've probably got extra SCSI or PATA disks though. The march of
> progress. *sigh*
I've got more PATA disks that I can remember. The only reason I
don't have more SCSI disks is that I gave away a bucket full of them
(literally -- a big blue bucket) to another LUG member. Sadly, the
bucket was probably worth more than the disks. Who wants a
half-height, 18 GB SCSI drive, these days?
Someone who runs older hardware at home :-) Though a RAID 0 (18 * 5)
of 90GB is going to fail before a 100GB PATA drive. It is worth doing
to RAID 1 the OS disks though. I'm using 9GB disks.
Not for production, but enough for home:
I have a bunch of SATA drives in a "box" with a fan and a PC power
supply. Long 42" SATA cables run from it to the controller in my home
server. That could be done with SCSI even more easily; one cable
going back to the controller. I wish I had a way to do this with PATA
but the cables won't go far enough.
I'm leary of PATA to SCSI or SATA adapters though. They add a bit of $$ too.
OTOH, the 15KRPM SAS disks we're getting in servers at work these
days are *nice*. :-)
Yet another standard that'll go obsolete :-)
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