Re: [CinCV] grand'ma proxy

2012-05-03 Thread Tim Copeland
Haldun, I put together a detailed response for you this morning. Unfortunately, I've been replying to this list from wrong address. It has been delaying replies, and adding unnecessary work for the moderator. Hopefully this is the right address. Apologies, for any inconveniences. Tim On Thu, 2

Re: [CinCV] grand'ma proxy

2012-05-03 Thread Haldun ALTAN
Merci Edouard, I was waiting for a sign from some one more experimented than me on this for not to take the wrong path from the beginning. Merci encore. Haldun. Le 03/05/2012 23:45, E Chalaron a écrit : Haldun Booting on raid is (ca

Re: [CinCV] grand'ma proxy

2012-05-03 Thread E Chalaron
Haldun Booting on raid is (can be) a nightmare. Keep your big drive for your OS (W7, Ubuntu) keep it heavily journalised just in case (ext4 or reiserfs for linux), and go for it on the 2 SAS 300GB as Raid 0 or 10. You will be amazed by the performance. salut E On 05/03/2012 11:20 PM, Haldun

Re: [CinCV] grand'ma proxy

2012-05-03 Thread Ichthyostega
Am 03.05.2012 13:20, schrieb Haldun ALTAN: > I mean can I have my OS on a ATA drive and use two SAS drives for the > temporary work on RAID ? The general plan is sound. Having the basic OS on a storage which works "out of the box" is always a good idea, when engaging into experiments with new/unkn

Re: [CinCV] grand'ma proxy

2012-05-03 Thread Haldun ALTAN
Very much thank you Tim, For your time and knowledge about RAID. Your information came out at the same moment I was going to ask a question before I begin my RAID experience. My configuration is 2 SAS 300Go disks and a 500 Go ATA drive which I use for s

Re: [CinCV] grand'ma proxy

2012-05-03 Thread Tim Copeland
Unless you are planning on spending many hundreds if not thousands of dollars on RAID hardware, then you should simply use Linux RAID. My personal experience matches what others have documented around the web. Linux RAID is not only more flexible, but substantially faster than commodity controller

Re: [CinCV] grand'ma proxy

2012-05-03 Thread Tim Copeland
There are situations where RAID 0 can be useful. I too have them for use as a high performance work spaces, but not for long term storage. I feel it important to stress the dangers to those following this thread. No matter the success others may have, hard drives fail every day. I have run many dif