Whatever tech you decide to use, don't underestimate the importance of backups. Your backup schedule and strategy should reflect the importance of the data that you are backing up. Also make sure that you have off-site backup.
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Michael Janapin <michael.jana...@gmail.com> wrote: > @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 > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Eric Manuel Pareja (eric.par...@gmail.com) LPIC-2, NCLP | PGP/GPG Key 0xB82E42D9 Coordinator for Technology - National Telehealth Center University of the Philippines Manila Senior Linux Trainer - International Open Source Network - ASEAN+3 Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi naglalakbay. - San Agustin わかよたれぞ つねならむ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
