bragging rights

[Chuck Robey]

Stephen McKay wrote:
> On Friday, 29th April 2005, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> 
>>The disks are very well worth noting.  Three of them, organized into the 
>>boot section and the home section.  The boot section is a 35G scsi, but 
>>it's 15K rpm rotation rate, which means it's blazing.  This would be 
>>fast enough on it's own, but it's not on it's own.  Tell me if you think 
>>it's the neatest, but I don't think so.  My own encomium is given to the 
> 
> 
> Thank you for teaching me a new word.  "Encomium" is not commonly used,
> to say the least. :-)
> 
> 
>>home section, which is formed from two 145G scsi disks.  They are each 
>>only 10K rotation rate (faster than the fastest IDE, anyhow), but each 
>>one has it's own independent scsi bus, so that the fast that they're 
>>hooked together in a striped access via vinum means (in effect) I have a 
>>290G drive that's, I dunno, I have to get to test, but damned fast, let 
>>me tell you!
> 
> 
> Personally, I would have mirrored the data disks instead of striping them.
> Much slower, yes, but I'm tired of losing data when disks die.  Even if
> you have recent backups they are never recent enough to restore everything.
> 

And I'm fairly certain that you're right on this.  I'm too busy right 
this minute to give the project enough research to get it right ... I 
have two disks, each 145G, and which I wouldn't mind giving up up to 1/3 
of the space, if I could, to reliability, I really want the speed, and I 
would NOT give up the entire disk, I don't need that sort of reliabilty, 
I just don't.  So, would you mind tellme, what do you think I ought to do?

> 
>>I'm very very proud of this system,  Can you see why?
> 
> 
> I'm pretty proud of my stuff too, but that's because I've made a pile of
> cast-off junk work, sometimes in unlikely configurations.  Are any of you
> still using ISA bus scsi cards?  I thought not!  At least I've retired my
> thin coax ethernet...
> 
> Stephen.