Re : failing installation process SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Everything-DVD

2012-09-02 Thread Charles Elsaesser
it's better to use theĀ  images ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.3/x86_64/iso/SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Everything-DVD1.iso and ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.3/x86_64/iso/SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Everything-DVD2.iso so all softwares will be available locally on two

SSD and RAID question

2012-09-02 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, On several Windows machines lately, I have been using Intel's Cherryville enterprise SSD drives. They work very, very well. Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time between failure) and a 5 year warranty. I have been thinking, for small business servers with a low

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-02 Thread Nathan
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, On several Windows machines lately, I have been using Intel's Cherryville enterprise SSD drives. They work very, very well. Cherryville drives have a 1.2 million hour MTBF (mean time between

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-02 Thread jdow
On 2012/09/02 20:26, Nathan wrote: In my experience, I've had more problems with hardware RAID controllers than any other component (hardware OR software) except for traditional hard drives themselves. We switched to software RAID (Linux) and ZFS (*BSD and Solaris) years ago. But that's

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-02 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 09/02/2012 08:26 PM, Nathan wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, On several Windows machines lately, I have been using Intel's Cherryville enterprise SSD drives. They work very,

Re: SSD and RAID question

2012-09-02 Thread zxq9
Hmm. Never had a bad hardware RAID controller. Had several mechanical hard drives go bad. Anyone have an opinion(s) on SSD's in a small work group server? We've had very good luck with SSDs (singly on workstations or spanned volumes on servers) as primary storage mirroring to a spanned