Re: [Flexradio] raid arrays

2011-07-23 Thread dan edwards
woaaHHH... a 'blonde woman doctor' ? dont tell Cindy...she's a blonde female RN... ha ha ha ha 73, w5xz, dan --- On Sat, 7/23/11, Frank Coffey wrote: From: Frank Coffey Subject: [Flexradio] raid arrays To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Date: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 9:23

Re: [Flexradio] raid arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Frank Coffey
] raid arrays Be very wary of USB Drive and 'cloud' storage systems on your PSDR machine. If you buy a WD or Seagate external drive, it comes with backup software that will run every few seconds to see if you have changed any files and want to store those files on the external disk. This

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Mickey Baker
The SSD for a boot device is a good idea. I keep most of my ham radio stuff on the SSD, and use an internal 2TB drive for photos, music, video and software downloads - almost everything that I run day to day gets put on the SSD. My system boots in about 15 seconds, down from a minute or more , and

Re: [Flexradio] raid arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Neal Campbell
Be very wary of USB Drive and 'cloud' storage systems on your PSDR machine. If you buy a WD or Seagate external drive, it comes with backup software that will run every few seconds to see if you have changed any files and want to store those files on the external disk. This can cause a moderate amo

[Flexradio] raid arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Frank Coffey
I am an IT person and use raid 1 here at home on 3 systems as well as do my own backups. A good cheap usb drive used as a backup is a really good solution. I run a small homebased computer business and when clients crash and burn I set them up an external drive as a backup or install a second drive

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread William H. Fite
Sorry, Simon, but I stand by my position. For people with special interests like you and Neal (and, I'm sure, others here) RAID may make sense, though I would argue that it makes less sense than you may think. But for John and Mary Lunchbucket, including your common-or-garden-variety ham, worried

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Ross Stenberg
I've been using it to keep earwigs out of the house. On 7/23/2011 12:01 PM, Neal Campbell wrote: No arguments on RAID 1, its RAID 0 that was the recommendation that we are advising against! I even use RAID 1 on my laptop! Of course its a special one that can handle 3 disk drives (and weighs abou

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Neal Campbell
No arguments on RAID 1, its RAID 0 that was the recommendation that we are advising against! I even use RAID 1 on my laptop! Of course its a special one that can handle 3 disk drives (and weighs about the same as a small Volkswagen). 73 Neal On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Simon HB9DRV wrote:

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Simon HB9DRV
I disagree totally. Disks are cheap; very cheap. RAID 1 should be used by anyone who cares about their data. Simon Brown, HB9DRV http://sdr-radio.com -Original Message- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of William H. Fite Neal and

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread William H. Fite
Neal and Tony are right. RAID arrays, for home users, are very rarely necessary or useful. Merely expensive opportunities for more hardware to fail, in most instances. Even for gamers (of whom I have a great many students who are), adding RAID is most often little more than a way to say, "Mine i

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Tim Ellison, W4TME
If you want to do RAID 0, do 0+1 instead. Tony is right -Tim --- Tim Ellison, W4TME Internet Systems Admin. & Customer Support Engineer FlexRadio Systems^(TM) 4616 W Howard Ln Ste 1-150 Austin, TX 78728 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 223 Email: t...@flexradio.com Web: www.f

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Tony Estep
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Neal Campbell wrote: > > > Raid 0 is more susceptible to disk failure... Raid 0 is dangerous. Instead of providing redundancy and saving your data in case of a disk problem, it spreads data across multiple drives. If any one of the drives fails,

Re: [Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Neal Campbell
Hi Jeff See my answers below! On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jeffrey Brown wrote: > I've been talking to some of my gamer coworkers and telling them about my > system and my Flex 5K. I thought I might be able to take a cue from what > they're doing to speed up their systems for playing the v

[Flexradio] RAID arrays

2011-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Brown
I've been talking to some of my gamer coworkers and telling them about my system and my Flex 5K.  I thought I might be able to take a cue from what they're doing to speed up their systems for playing the video games.  Here's what they seem to be doing:  load OS only on a SSD drive, say 125 GB, l