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| RoboPope |
Posted on 12-10-2008 18:33
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I have just aquired this little SAN with some 300gb 15k FC AL disks. I *could* rebuild to boot from it but is it worth it? HD Tune gives random seek times under 1ms-1 and really rather savage sustained write time Is it worth the effort, thoughts? Brought up in the hard streets of Eton in a life of insufferable wealth...
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 12-10-2008 18:49
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you lucky devil, not sure about the effort but are we talking about using it for PXE booting & running diskless workstations muhahah.... |
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| RoboPope |
Posted on 12-10-2008 19:31
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Thats the kiddie, just booting off an EVA 4100. Its done wonders for my databases for query times and it will keep the house warm too. the cards are 4gb with a single 800mb channel just windows is kind of shite at data transfer but it should boot really rather nicely I have to wire in a couple of 16amp commando sockets though 
Edited by RoboPope on 12-10-2008 19:57 Brought up in the hard streets of Eton in a life of insufferable wealth...
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| tijlehto |
Posted on 24-10-2008 14:14
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Posts: 9 Joined: 22.10.08 |
Quote RoboPope wrote: *snip*.. and it will keep the house warm too. *snip* Reminds me of the old school Wang VS mainframes we used to have lying around at work, you could feel the house vibrate a little when you spun the whole rig with it's disk banks and the like up, kept in their own dinosaur pen with those wrist thick power cables running around  And yes, it did keep the house warm, raised temperature by something like 3C in the winter by itself. Back on topic: Have you by chance measured the performance of that rig against something like a fast 64GB flash SSD? The read/write profile on those tends to be better fit with how windows uses the disk when it boots up, fast reads of random blocks all over the place. The HD box is probably more for high throughput big block reads, yes? |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 24-10-2008 17:48
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SSD flash nice but he got this kit for free I'm just jealous, now if only my work would decide they no longer wanted there netapp filer |
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| sick-lizard |
Posted on 03-12-2008 18:11
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http://www.openfiler.com/ NAS/SAN Linux based OS that works nicely if you have spare kit about |
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