From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: checking md device parity (forced resync) - is it necessary? Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:11:46 +0200 Message-ID: <44FED722.2050508@wpkg.org> References: <44FD3C65.8040000@wpkg.org> <17662.54119.167225.879836@smtp.charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17662.54119.167225.879836@smtp.charter.net> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Stoffel Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids John Stoffel wrote: > Tomasz> Lately I installed Debian on a Thecus n4100 machine. It's a > Tomasz> 600 MHz ARM storage device, and has 4 x 400 GB drives. > > Interesting box... how quiet is it? I can't tell you if it's quiet or not, it's in the server room right now, and serves as a backup and iSCSI storage for Xen. But as I still configured it and it was on my desk, it seemed a bit louder than a normal PC. After all, it has 4 drives (which you have to buy separately). > I'm thinking of one of these for > home use, but I'll probably go with an EPIA box so I can actually > setup a NFS/CiFS/backup/http/mysql server... Although it has two gigabit network cards, you can't fully use them - the IXP3xx ARM CPU (600 MHz) allows you to only send about 25 MB/s of packets (measured on a loopback interface, so iSCSI LAN speeds are a bit lower). > I've looked at the Irfant and the Buffalo Logic ones as well... all > tempting. But backups are the killer. :] There's also Thecus n5200, 800 MHz mobile Celeron, which you can supply with 5 drives... :) -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org