Re: raid (was RE: OT: Dell disks)

2012-06-21 Thread Stephen
I have never liked raid 5 but can still see its use. And while you are 100% correct I have the statement that raid is not a back up it is a good feature for performance needs and overall uptime so you can keep running in case of single disk failure. Which I have dealt with. On Jun 21, 2012 8:45 AM,

Re: raid (was RE: OT: Dell disks)

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Butash
Agreed - I have a separate nas I rsync important data regularly with between my laptop as I often work away from home, here I just use the nas. Problem is I don't always have my laptop on at home, and sometimes goes weeks without replication. I run the ssd's in raid1 as a) i want *some* disk-

Re: raid (was RE: OT: Dell disks)

2012-06-21 Thread Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
. Gilbert On 6/21/2012 8:41 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: raid (was RE: OT: Dell disks) -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Eric Shubert On 06/19/2012 09:13 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > > So yeah, no raid is perfect... > > &

raid (was RE: OT: Dell disks)

2012-06-21 Thread Carruth, Rusty
-Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Eric Shubert On 06/19/2012 09:13 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > > So yeah, no raid is perfect... > > > ... > > -mb > > I use software raid strictly on servers, which are headless (of course). > ... > > I

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-21 Thread Eric Shubert
On 06/19/2012 09:13 PM, Michael Butash wrote: So yeah, no raid is perfect... I've been using software raid1 (md) for a while now for my desktops and laptops work and home, and since my adventures in ati gpu land, I've twice now had video software/hardware cause my software raid to fail ugly, but

RE: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Carruth, Rusty
I think of RAID 5 :-) Rusty -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Michael Butash Sent: Tue 6/19/2012 9:13 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: OT: Dell disks On 06/19/2012 12:48 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: > On 06/19/2012 0

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Butash
On 06/19/2012 12:48 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 06/19/2012 06:28 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Hi Mark, On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mark Jarvis mailto:m.jar...@cox.net>> wrote: I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few years ago I was warned off them because Dell did some

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Eric Shubert
On 06/19/2012 06:28 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Hi Mark, On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mark Jarvis mailto:m.jar...@cox.net>> wrote: I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few years ago I was warned off them because Dell did something different to their disks so

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Butash
Lesser known fact, but I stopped buying Western Digital drives because they purposely began removing firmware function to disable tler, purposly pushing people to buy their 2x cost "enterprise" drives to *support* raid. It turned into a inet snafu at one point from backlash as they ripped it o

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Mark Jarvis
Thanks to  all who responded. Sounds like no problem. Thanks again, Mark Mark Jarvis wrote: I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few years ago I was warned off them beca

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Mark, On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Mark Jarvis wrote: > > I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few years ago > I was warned off them because Dell did something different to their disks > so that you had to buy replacement/additional disks only from Dell. Any > chan

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-19 Thread Stephen
Working with dells at work. Including the 620 any hdd will do. The motherboard/case combination however is all sorts of proprietary. But the 620 took Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3 like a champ. On Jun 18, 2012 10:24 PM, "Mark Jarvis" wrote: > > I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), b

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Butash
ence though, just to make sure. Keith Smith --- On *Mon, 6/18/12, Mark Jarvis //* wrote: From: Mark Jarvis Subject: OT: Dell disks To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 10:05 PM I'm considering buying a Del

Re: OT: Dell disks

2012-06-18 Thread keith smith
ubject: OT: Dell disks To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 10:05 PM I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few years ago I was warned off them because Dell did something different to their dis

OT: Dell disks

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Jarvis
I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few years ago I was warned off them because Dell did something different to their disks so that you had to buy replacement/additional disks only from Dell. Any chance that it's still true?