223.5 gigs of drive space in my near future

[fury]

Raid 1 is basically using two of the same size and type of disks to achieve 2x the reliability of one drive (if one of them fails, the other takes over)

I don't see why I can't just mirror it and stripe it at the same time... I mean, if you're duplicating the same data, couldn't you just read the next bit from the 2nd hard drive as if you were just striping two 60 gig drives?

 

[Squiggy]

I thiught that was how it was supposed to work too. The DP Macs show very little performance enhancement over single processor Macs. Its all hype...

 

[fury]

That's because professional Photoshopping is really the only reason to get a dual G4 (are they up to G5 yet? can't remember)

Nothing else has really been optimized to take advantage of the architecture.

 

[Squiggy]

Not yet

 

[tommyj27]

you can crunch whatever distributed project a lot faster with two cpus

 

[fury]

Not many projects run on a G4 though. I think just distributed.net.

BTW, I hooked up the one remaining drive and looked at the Sandra bench for it, only about 3 megs a second slower than the RAID array, so I mastered it and installed Windblows, it's still fast.

How the hell can I tell that a drive that I can't hear is being accessed?

 

[Professur]

LEDs

 

[fury]

Don't have any.

 

[Professur]

Get some. Duh.

 

[Justintime]

Not many projects run on a G4 though. I think just distributed.net.

BTW, I hooked up the one remaining drive and looked at the Sandra bench for it, only about 3 megs a second slower than the RAID array, so I mastered it and installed Windblows, it's still fast.

How the hell can I tell that a drive that I can't hear is being accessed?

see, was that extra 3mb/sec worth it? RAID 0 cannot and will not double the output, far from it, and as i said you'll only see a diff when the drive is being accessed alot and large files are bein used, and why don't you have any hdd leds?

 

[Professur]

They broke off

 

[fury]

No, it just broke. I think I put the wire in the wrong way when I was first setting up the case, but I saw a bright flash out of it and then nothing else.

 

[Professur]

ROFHKAS


And you got a job in a shop fixing computers?????




* rolls on floor howling, kicking and screaming some more.

 

[Justintime]

You musta plugged it into the wrong pins and blew it with over voltage, backwards on the right pin would just result in nothing

 

[fury]

That was like 2 years ago. I'm better now. Really, I am. OK, fine, so I took the bracket off a video card and caused it to blow up when I hotplugged the monitor, it's not like that was a customer's computer...

 

[samcurry]

aww come o guys. we all had stupid shit like that happen to us when we first started. Hell i pulled a 24 pin printhead out and watched it blow everywhere. Ive shorted out printers and watched a 1 foot flame shoot out one side.
but i learned from the experience. I no longer work on printers

 

[fury]

I learn from word-of-mouth as well as experience... I'm never gonna work on printers.

 

[PT]

Hell the only printers worth even trying to fix are laser printers, and they really aren't too bad. I think its hilarious when I go buy ink refills that are about 75% of the original cost of the printer.

 

[fury]

Not on a Canon BJC-6000. $10-15 per tank

About 33% of the original cost if you get all four tanks replaced at the same time (which you usually don't). Or if you're using a photo cartridge, all six tanks, in which case 50% of the original cost.

 

[Professur]

Worst I've ever done is give myself a jolt working on a Lexmark printer. I was used to HP's where you could change the fuser without unplugging it. Not so with Lexmarks. ZAP.

Never blown up anything that I can recall.