Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 February 2014 16:34, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/7/2014 8:06 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > The two I linked are internal units to go in a 5.25" bay ... that's why > > you'd need an internal 4-6 port card to make them worthwhile. > > ah, I thought we were talking about esata external 4-bays, s

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/7/2014 8:06 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > The two I linked are internal units to go in a 5.25" bay ... that's why > you'd need an internal 4-6 port card to make them worthwhile. ah, I thought we were talking about esata external 4-bays, since we were talking about microservers which don't HAVE

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 February 2014 15:45, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/7/2014 7:28 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > I was thinking of a bay along the lines of: > > > > http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/node/1824 or > > http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=151 > > > > I wonder what performance would be like through multip

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/7/2014 7:28 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > I was thinking of a bay along the lines of: > > http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/node/1824 or > http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=151 > > I wonder what performance would be like through multiplexing the eSATA > interface compared to buying a 4-6 port inte

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 February 2014 15:01, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/7/2014 6:15 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > >> >the eSATA expander has its own PSU. the Microserver would just be > >> >powering the esata card, which is nothing. > >> > > > I don't suppose you have a link to one you've looked at already do you?

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/7/2014 6:15 AM, James Hogarth wrote: >> >the eSATA expander has its own PSU. the Microserver would just be >> >powering the esata card, which is nothing. >> > > I don't suppose you have a link to one you've looked at already do you? something like this... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 February 2014 14:13, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/7/2014 6:09 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > I do like the idea about the expander though ... power might be an issue > > given it's a low power PSU that comes with it - would probably have to > swap > > that part out. > > the eSATA expander has i

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/7/2014 6:09 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > I do like the idea about the expander though ... power might be an issue > given it's a low power PSU that comes with it - would probably have to swap > that part out. the eSATA expander has its own PSU. the Microserver would just be powering the esat

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 February 2014 14:03, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/7/2014 5:56 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > I frankly don't care if I lose the system disk - it's quick to rebuild > the > > system - it's the data I care about. > > > > On this I'm running F20 rather than C6 primarily for the better BTRFS > (whe

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/7/2014 5:56 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > I frankly don't care if I lose the system disk - it's quick to rebuild the > system - it's the data I care about. > > On this I'm running F20 rather than C6 primarily for the better BTRFS (when > el7 rolls around I'll contemplate a rebuild to that then) a

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 February 2014 11:34, John Doe wrote: > From: Jeff Allison > > > Ok I've a HP mircoserver that I'm building up. > > It's got 4 bays for be used for data that I'm considering setup up woth > > softwere raid (mdadm) > > I've 2 x 2TB 2 x 2.5 TB and 2 x 1TB, I'm leaning towards usig the > > 4 2.

Re: [CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-07 Thread John Doe
From: Jeff Allison > Ok I've a HP mircoserver that I'm building up. > It's got 4 bays for be used for data that I'm considering setup up woth > softwere raid (mdadm) > I've 2 x 2TB 2 x 2.5 TB and 2 x 1TB, I'm leaning towards usig the > 4 2.x TB is a raid 5 array to get 6TB. Just a reminder that

[CentOS] Raid on centos

2014-02-06 Thread Jeff Allison
Ok I've a HP mircoserver that I'm building up. It's got 4 bays for be used for data that I'm considering setup up woth softwere raid (mdadm) I've 2 x 2TB 2 x 2.5 TB and 2 x 1TB, I'm leaning towards usig the 4 2.x TB is a raid 5 array to get 6TB. Now the data is on the 2.5TB disks currently. So