Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: Robert Arkiletian wrote: On 3/10/08, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well (provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown) Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not goi

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread John R Pierce
Therese Trudeau wrote: What do you think of alternative back up systems, such as a tape backup with bare metal restore software? I'd go that route instead if I could fine a solution which would allow me to restore to different hardware, i.e. if my motherboard dies and I need to buy a different

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Therese Trudeau wrote: ACTUALLY I totally forgot. I absoluteluy can not use software raid. Because I use Adobe products. Adobe products do not install well on software raid systems, and tend to crash on software raid beacuse of their activation process. If I go raid, I absolutely need a har

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Tom Brown wrote: Just for fun, the first hit on a google for "redundant atx power supply" http://www.directron.com/tc400r8.html Seems you can just plop one into your std atx chassis . . . i have never understood how something with a single feed can be termed 'redundant' Yes, that do

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Therese Trudeau wrote: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:33:29 -0400 ACTUALLY I totally forgot. I absoluteluy can not use software raid. Because I use Adobe products. Adobe products do not install well on software raid systems, and tend to crash on software raid beacuse of their activation

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Tom Brown wrote: Yeah, that PS appears to have only one outlet (unless i'm not seeing it in the photo), most redundant PS's have seperaate outlets for a Y power cable one for each supply. Guess it's not that redundant. yes - although i would never use a Y cable - Dual PSU's need 2 feeds

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Brown
Yeah, that PS appears to have only one outlet (unless i'm not seeing it in the photo), most redundant PS's have seperaate outlets for a Y power cable one for each supply. Guess it's not that redundant. yes - although i would never use a Y cable - Dual PSU's need 2 feeds from seperate PDU

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Tom Brown
Just for fun, the first hit on a google for "redundant atx power supply" http://www.directron.com/tc400r8.html Seems you can just plop one into your std atx chassis . . . i have never understood how something with a single feed can be termed 'redundant' ___

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Toby Bluhm wrote: Therese Trudeau wrote: You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well (provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown) Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to help if your PS fails. That's a very go

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Toby Bluhm
Therese Trudeau wrote: You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well (provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown) Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to help if your PS fails. That's a very good point never thou

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RA ID" 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-10 Thread John R Pierce
Robert Arkiletian wrote: On 3/10/08, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well (provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown) Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to help if your PS