@holden Thanks for the info. I'll be in Manila this weekend. I might swing by Gilmore to check it out.
@jijo I'd setup a temporary sata raid one while waiting for that SSD. Thanks for the input. Thanks guys. Greatly appreciate your help. Michael Janapin PBTS Baguio City http://mulingsilang.wordpress.com sent from my Android On Jan 17, 2011 2:02 PM, "Federico Sevilla III" <j...@fs3.ph> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > If you can do this using SATA it's more convenient because the drives > are more current, and because there are usually more available SATA > ports without any performance penalties attached to using them. > > With IDE you introduce the problem of contention for controller time. > Both your drives need to be masters on the primary and secondary > controllers, and if one of the controllers also has an optical drive it > negatively affects performance of the entire array. > > Cheers! > > -- > Federico Sevilla III, CISSP, CSM, LPIC-2 > Chief Executive Officer > F S 3 Consulting Inc. > http://www.fs3.ph > > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:55 +0800, Michael Janapin wrote: >> @holden, >> Thanks. Flying to Davao sounds very appealing... especially on >> company's subsidy. Lol. >> >> @Jijo >> I'm actually thinking of doing that. Would IDEs on Raid 1 be any >> better? >> >> Michael Janapin >> PBTS Baguio City >> http://mulingsilang.wordpress.com >> sent from my Android >> >> On Jan 17, 2011 1:43 PM, "Federico Sevilla III" <j...@fs3.ph> wrote: >> > Hi Michael, >> > >> > You may also want to consider an "old fashioned" approach: 2 x SATA >> in >> > software RAID 1 + regular (weekly at the least) backups to an >> external >> > USB storage device. >> > >> > Cheers! >> > >> > -- >> > Federico Sevilla III, CISSP, CSM, LPIC-2 >> > Chief Executive Officer >> > F S 3 Consulting Inc. >> > http://www.fs3.ph >> > >> > >> > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:30 +0800, Michael Janapin wrote: >> >> Hello guys, >> >> After our SATA failure over the weekend, It's very traumatic to go >> >> into that again. >> >> So I would like to know if there is a local supplier for SSDs? >> >> Specifically, I'm looking at OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" >> 120GB >> >> SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD). >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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