for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?
i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]
We use Veritas volumes for our raw devices for Sybase. The DBA just requested that we make our block size match theirs which is 8k. As far as I remember, you only set the block size when creating filesystems. There is no concept of block sizing at the volume level, correct?We use [...]
I don’t have much use for it. How useful/useless is this thing?makes a good server but harddrives are a PITA to replace so dont rely on itI think we still have ours from when we had an internal mail server at work… I guess Comcast didn’t want it back… It’s been almost 6 years.That [...]
