On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:37 -0700, gharris999 wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: > > What is the attraction? What am I missing? > > Well, in my case, hardware raid 5 is a real attraction.
I have a couple of servers with hardware raid. I don't see any strong reason to perfer it. After all Turing proved that hardware and software are isomorphic. > I figure that the nuts, bolts 'n disks cost will always be dwarfed by the > ripping / > tagging time cost. I agree completely, if you assign some value to your time. I got to where I could do about 20 CDs per hour on one machine. When we did it professionally, we set up 20 machines and had someone go from machine to machine inserting disks. > I assume I could accomplish the same with Linux with a little > effort and head-scratching. Hardware raid will allow me to sleep just > a little more soundly. True. If you get one of the easier distros on CD, say Mandriva 2005LE, it is pretty much insert disk, hit OK. Then do a little GUI configuration stuff. > other than the pleasure of frittering away time working with > whacky hardware. So you a closet audiophile? > gig download for the Fedora install DVD? Sure! Sign me up! Try Mandriva, not that Fedora is bad. I just like the Mandriva GUI for RPM/urpmi a lot. I am pretty sure the distro doesn't really matter much. > My original plan has always been to do as you have done: migrate my XP > box to linux, exile it heedlessly to the utility closet and just let it > run. If this NAS doesn’t work out, I guess that that is what I’ll still > do. And sell the NAS on eBay? I assume that easy setup is one of the strong points of the NAS approach. My SlimServer box does not run apache or any client stuff like email. It has a copy of FireFox so I can download stuff. I also run some redundant things, like a backup DHCP server. I am by no means a serios Linux/Unix sys admin, I can do enough to get by, configure the firewall, etc. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
