Recent content by spectrumbx

People and their problems huh? I wish I could "only" get 20-30Mbps. :( @OP Yes, you will be throttled. That's just the nature of the business. They let you burst, but ultimately throttle you.

Depending on the usage, I would. :) There are lots of read heavy deployments out there. In many cases, data is literally written once, never deleted, and then read often. Well, let's get some benchmark before assuming they have achieved practical performance not possible with consumer...

@OP Let's recap: 1. SSD RAID 0 failed 2. Internal backup disk corrupted 3. Network backup was never kept up and outdated What failed for you is not the RAID 0 array. What failed is your backup strategy. Make sure to remember and understand this key point for your next setup. There...

Wait... so, you were given approval to lose all the data on the array? Must have not been important data to choose to lose it over merely $1k in expenses.

Why are you being so cheap? :p Just buy 6x 4TB disks and start saving the disk images.You can then resell those bought disks to recoup some of the cost after all is done. You are ignoring all advice asking you to do so without providing any real explanation as to why you won't/can't. Moreover...

No matter what happens stick with it and copy the data out. It is only after that you should move the disks to PC and boot from a Linux CD to inspect. They may be using mdadm, but you don't know which version and what custom things they might have done. The point of running a Live CD after...

FYI, lot of new features were added to tRAID including Storage Acceleration, which was the last planned feature. This essentially resolves the last aspect of performance concerns associate with the approach.

If your current box is maxed out, then you have no other option than to build another box. If your concerns are on having a single point of access to that data, remember that RAID-F and RAID and pool network shares. Don't over tax a single system. Too many disks under a single array is not a...

Screw the equipment. Another gun now in the streets. :rolleyes:

Except that it is typically in an incredibly noisy electrical environment with no decent transformer to deal with that unlike in an good receiver. Any amplification in such an environment comes with a free doze of noise amplification (especially for headphones). Everyone knows well to...

No idea. I don't know much about fixing PSUs. So, they were all simply trashed. I wish I could fix these things. Not so much to save money, but to be able to better troubleshoot these things. I ended up ordering a new motherboard and CPU in addition to the power supply as I was not sure...

Having gone through another PSU failure, making it the 3rd in the last six years, I am now pondering whether PSUs have a general short lifespan or whether it is purely my environment that is killing them. I have been a fan of Fortron Blue PSUs and bought five of them. three have now died...

@skypine27 Indeed the Raptor has the edge, but I understood that you wanted a compromise between speed and space, which the Barracuda fulfill. You might get disappointed in waiting for high RPM larger drives. HDD manufacturers are struggling making them. In fact, Seagate has not put out yet a...

+1 The only drive that I am now buying outside of the Intel G2 SSDs.

Yes. The Samsung Barracuda 3TB 7200 perform equal to the 1TB V-Raptor: http://forum.flexraid.com/index.php/topic,3111.msg21125.html#msg21125