Episode V - A New Server

UPDATE: The Win2K Server is now running on an Asus P4S800D-X with a 3GHz P4. The P5B is my main WinXP workstation, using an E6550. I also have two new boxes, both using Q6600s. More to come.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• windows
• 2000
• server
• RAID

[MrFantastic742]

im going to come and relieve you of that wonderful dual PIII board you filthy blasphemer

[SomeUselessGeek]

@MrFantastic742 Oh, please. Please do relieve this filthy blasphemer of that clapped-out, twelve-year-old design, dual PIII. Do you want some 20GB PATA drives to go with it? How about a 3 1/2" ridgie drive? And a rollerball mouse or two? Actually, I think the roller mice are all gone (along with the 300W power supplies), but I still have some PS/2 keyboards if you want one.

[MrFantastic742]

@SomeUselessGeek I can do without the floppies and ball mouse, but you should give that old iron some respect. Maybe if you werent running winBLOWS you might see the usefulness in older hardware.

[SomeUselessGeek]

@MrFantastic742 Hah, hah. Yes, Windoze is rather hard on hardware platforms, but the server main board is what clapped out, not my install of (ack, thpth) Win2K Server. I do have some other P3 hardware running Ubuntu 10.10, but that's not on a RAID.

Sadly, the only mobo with a working RAID controller no longer wants to install properly. I am now running without a RAID anywhere on my lab network, a position that make me very nervous. Thank God for writable DVDs.

[SomeUselessGeek]

1 plus 0, also known as 10. It's a 2 by 2, with striping and mirroring.

[chucknorris687]

I agree but what kinda of Raid Array are we taking about 1 or 5 ?

[SomeUselessGeek]

Oh, okay. We are talking about two completely different things. I am talking about online data reliability, while you are talking about offline data backup and storage. Backing up to CDs or DVDs has nothing to do with online data reliability. I do offline disk backups, too -- just like everybody else.

My concern is having data that is available right now and knowing that the data is safe and reliable. The only way to do that is with a RAID. Does that make sense?

[chucknorris687]

OK, I'll go with you with on that, but lets say you have a lighting storm right. And then lets say you ups and and whatever else you have goes. Then what? No DATA that's what. What I would do is I would have a another sever backing this sever up running say Windows home server and then every so often make an image of your server and then back some your data up on DVD or hell even blu-rays. Windows home sever does full+inc+dif I think, but you get the point.

[SomeUselessGeek]

How does a "backup system place" protect my data in a manner superior to that of a RAID? My data has to be stored someplace, and I choose to put it in a safe-by-design storage facility. It so happens that facility is online and immediately available on my server. Best of everything.

[chucknorris687]

HA having a raid array does not protect your data dude. What you need to have is a backup system place.