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| DATE | 2007-01-27 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] NYLXS Meeting results and next Meeting
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I'm going to need someone to look at the case and see what size
Mother Board we can install in there and evaluate our options.
Ruben
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:57:23PM -0500, Matthew wrote:
> As a heads up. Ubuntu is NOT ready for a real server as far as I am concerned.
> Others have had some problems with it.
>
> The main issue that I had was setting up a dual drive machine in a raid
> with LVM on it (which is probably a good idea) can NOT be properly
> setup with ubuntu at this time. I have done it but it took me over 12 hours
> to get it working on a low power mini itx. (part of that was that the
> installer was reporting errors on it)
>
> Fedora setups of the same are MUCH easier. With SCSI vs IDE,
> I am hearing that there SCSI still gives better responses than IDE not
> sure about SATA though. My attempt at using a SATA raid had found a
> situtation with one machine where the BIOS claimed that we had a
> RAID but the drives were presented to linux as individual drives.
>
> Mathew
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:37:50AM -0500, rc wrote:
> > If I may, about the server. I really think you will find more
> > redundancy, value, and performance out of a good IDE RAID-1 setup.
> > Setting it up w/ Ubuntu is a breeze (Alternative Edition). I see no
> > reason these days to buy SCSI or RAMBUS, aside from the fact that RAMBUS
> > is a criminal, predatory organization who does things like submit
> > technology to open standards, hide the fact they patented the shit out
> > of it, then tries to bully others into paying them. They'll never get a
> > cent from me.
> >
> > Enough rant.
> >
> > Basically, you can't beat the setup I mentioned- cheap, fast and rock solid.
> >
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