roasted | hello! | 02:29 |
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roasted | do any of you folk run RAID on your home servers etc? | 02:29 |
TheLordOfTime | yes, but its hardware RAID on mine :P | 02:30 |
TheLordOfTime | not software RAID :P | 02:30 |
roasted | meh | 02:34 |
roasted | I don't think I could stomach hardware raid. | 02:35 |
* TheLordOfTime points at the $2500 server box :P | 02:35 | |
TheLordOfTime | as i said, i run hardware raid. :P | 02:35 |
roasted | I'm considering on setting up RAID but I'm not entirely sure what to go with. | 02:35 |
roasted | Some reading suggests that I can do RAID 5 with only two drives utilizing mdadm | 02:36 |
roasted | which would be nice because then I can later add 2 additional drives and do 4x2TB in RAID 5 | 02:36 |
roasted | new plan | 04:01 |
roasted | 4x2TB in RAID 10 | 04:01 |
ChinnoDog | waste of disk space | 04:11 |
roasted | I'm fine with that, given that there's some admirable tradeoffs with performance and redundancy. | 04:12 |
roasted | the more I read the more it sounds like 10 has largely taken over the point behind why a lot of people used 5 | 04:13 |
ChinnoDog | I never configure redundancy on home computers. I rely on my backups. | 04:13 |
roasted | with the exception of the HDD space being a bit more limited with 10 vs 5 | 04:13 |
roasted | I have a mirror in my desktop, which is nice. | 04:13 |
roasted | my server though will be running 247 and host a few different services, so having RAID would be a bonus | 04:13 |
ChinnoDog | RAID 5 would be faster and give you more usable space | 04:14 |
roasted | everything I read suggests RAID 5 is only faster with read. | 04:14 |
roasted | whereas RAID 10 is faste rwith write | 04:14 |
roasted | which, considering I'll be pushing backups to the server a lot, comes with a benefit. | 04:14 |
ChinnoDog | maybe once upon a time with slow checksumming or if you had a really slow RAID controller | 04:15 |
roasted | I won't be using a RAID controller. | 04:16 |
roasted | I'll be using software RAID via mdadm. | 04:16 |
roasted | RAID 5 pros, often faster read, more usable space. RAID 10 pros, faster write, overall decent performance, superior redundancy to RAID 5. | 04:16 |
ChinnoDog | Well, unless your CPU is under 100Mhz... | 04:16 |
roasted | considering I'm spending the same money for RAID 5 as I would be for RAID 10, there's no cost difference to me. | 04:17 |
roasted | It's just I get 4TB usable space instead of 6TB. | 04:17 |
ChinnoDog | Boot Phoronix test suite and do a benchmark | 04:17 |
roasted | Which, my goal is 2TB. | 04:17 |
roasted | software RAID (mdadm) hardly uses any CPU power to question it, to be honest. | 04:17 |
ChinnoDog | I think you will find RAID 5 with 4 drives is faster than RAID 10 | 04:17 |
roasted | Well, maybe. So far I'd say 9/10 things I read suggest otherwise. | 04:18 |
roasted | They do however say RAID 5 is often faster with read, but damn slow with write. | 04:18 |
roasted | Some reports I'm reading are going as far as saying RAID 5 is obsolete. | 04:19 |
ChinnoDog | I'd just stripe all 4. lol. | 04:24 |
ChinnoDog | speed++ | 04:24 |
ChinnoDog | 64k block size | 04:25 |
roasted | stripe all 4, as in, RAID 0 across all? | 04:27 |
ChinnoDog | yup | 04:30 |
roasted | well that sounds like it's asking for a nightmare :P | 04:32 |
rmg51 | Morning | 10:25 |
JonathanD | Morning. | 10:52 |
InHisName | Morning | 11:50 |
teddy-dbear | Morning peoples | 13:12 |
ChinnoDog | We are running low on morning. | 16:57 |
InHisName | OK, here's another morning for you all | 17:13 |
waltman | morning. | 17:14 |
waltman | er, afternoon. close enough. | 17:14 |
InHisName | So, ChinnoDog are you filled up enough with mornings? Shall we get on with afternoons now ? | 17:15 |
ChinnoDog | Yes. No more mornings for now. | 17:25 |
InHisName | Good afternoon, everyone ! Bears too. | 18:00 |
roasted | :D | 18:34 |
InHisName | roasted: in January, Hmmm, Is that an oxymoron ? | 18:41 |
MutantTurkey | Back in Philadelphia | 23:16 |
MutantTurkey | https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/P0AMe25qENo/hqdefault.jpg | 23:17 |
MutantTurkey | was my atom PC | 23:17 |
MutantTurkey | it didn't have a dedicated fan though, just a fan for the box, so I took off that heatsink and added two more instead | 23:17 |
MutantTurkey | https://plus.google.com/photos/109367249414092517185/albums/posts/5834932779375558290 | 23:20 |
MutantTurkey | http://imgur.com/fNLNOD7 | 23:20 |
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