Upgrading My DAS System

By Daniel Miessler on September 10th, 2006: Tagged as Geek | Technology

It’s time to upgrade my DAS file server capabilities. I’ve had my current 240GB RAID5 setup for 3-4 years now and it’s time to make the big move to 1TB.

I have an ATA controller that holds 4 disks, so one option is to just upgrade to 3 or 4 500GB drives and be done with it. The other option is to go a completely different route — maybe a collection of newer SATA drives and having the OS do software RAID. Yet another option would be to just get some sort of NAS solution, thus freeing up a server.

At this point I can’t do much with the box that’s serving as my file server, though, so I’m inclined to let it continue in that role. I am leaning heavily toward just upgrading my drives and waiting until next time to do a complete technology upgrade (100TB?).

What do you you guys think? Upgrade the drives, or go another route?

  • http://www.slashback.org/ Tim

    Speaking of upgrades:

    [nova20@warthog:~]$ grep “model name” /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz

    I love me some hyperthreading. It also kicked my half-gig of ram up to full speed (400 MHz DDR). Soon I’ll add another gig to that… oh, and it has an 800MHz FSB and a full 1024 kb of cache.

    It flies now. i also got a new video card: nVidia GeForce 6800XT w/ 512 MB DDR2

    WoW runs around 25-30 fps at 1024×768, high detail landscape… through wine. I wish Blizzard would write a linux native client.

    I also noticed as I was writing this that I’m not sure which to use: is ‘B’ bytes and ‘b’ bits or is it the other way around?

  • http://www.slashback.org Tim

    Speaking of upgrades:

    [nova20@warthog:~]$ grep “model name” /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz

    I love me some hyperthreading. It also kicked my half-gig of ram up to full speed (400 MHz DDR). Soon I’ll add another gig to that… oh, and it has an 800MHz FSB and a full 1024 kb of cache.

    It flies now. i also got a new video card: nVidia GeForce 6800XT w/ 512 MB DDR2

    WoW runs around 25-30 fps at 1024×768, high detail landscape… through wine. I wish Blizzard would write a linux native client.

    I also noticed as I was writing this that I’m not sure which to use: is ‘B’ bytes and ‘b’ bits or is it the other way around?


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