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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2007, 12:38:03 AM »

Niiiice

(admiring the size of your raid arrays) :D

I need another drive for this PC - well 2 really  - cause although I dont use RAID, drive 2 is a replica of drive 1
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2007, 07:47:20 AM »

RAID - whether RAID1 or RAID5 - is the only way to go now IMHO.

Any other method of storage requires regular backups and the datasets are so large that most people won't bother either making a backup OR verifying it regularly until its all too late.
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #17 on: November 13, 2007, 10:13:57 AM »

* mr_chris nods in agreement
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2007, 12:04:08 PM »

RAID - whether RAID1 or RAID5 - is the only way to go now IMHO.

Any other method of storage requires regular backups and the datasets are so large that most people won't bother either making a backup OR verifying it regularly until its all too late.

I know

Unfortunately its the cost of 2 identical drives (hence my post saying "well 2 really") that is the deterrent. :(

atm I have something which runs nightly and backs up my "working" data and important files. 
Then I have something that runs weekly which checks some other stuff.
But the D Drive because of its size and length of time that it takes to do it is a manual task :/
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2007, 04:57:13 PM »

With a lot of RAID implementations you don't need 2 identical drives - eg for RAID1 its usually enough that the mirror disk is larger than the target.

I know (I've tested it) that on these Terastations I can replace a disk with a larger disk without problems. I know that Clare's machine (Shuttle SD39P2) can do the same with RAID1 so it's not only the "latest & greatest" chipsets which can cope with this. I think I remember a MSI motherboard we have which can do the same too - and that is five years old.

Might be worth a try on your system?
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2007, 07:08:25 PM »

On this machine I have

Western Digital 250GB - split 100/150 GB
Seagate 7200 - 200GB -

Also have
Buffalo linkstation 300GB
Antec Media Center - WD 320GB
Kims PC 100GB + 40?GB

The seagate drive  doesnt have sufficient capacity to mirror the WD (on which the D Drive is forever short of space)

So The Buffalo has a backup of my music /software...  and also is supposed to backup all the music on Kimis PC

Ideal situation would be two new RAID drives for this PC.
Take the WD drive and put it in the Media Center currently has 1 x 320GB WD
Put the Seagate in Kims PC to give her more drive space.

Moving everything around would be a nightmare :D :D
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #21 on: November 14, 2007, 10:13:33 AM »

Damn - I was supposed to be downloading wasn't I?  Haven't done anything since Monday :doh:

Strangely my ADSL went down at midnight (give or take a minute or so) and stayed down until I powered down the router for 10 minutes this morning. I tried a reboot and I also tried the ST780WL but neither saw any ADSL signal. No indication why it went down either - Netgear's logs aren't great for that (LCP down is rather an unhelpful log entry). Odd.
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #22 on: November 14, 2007, 10:26:59 AM »

Youre slacking :D

Weird about the downtime and that both routers saw no signal though :(
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #23 on: November 14, 2007, 04:42:58 PM »

I wondered if it might have something to do with forcing SRA? I rebooted again (after I got another LCP drop and no attempt to resync) at 07:34 with SRA, Bitswapping and Trellis forced on and its been fine since then.

Odd that it was around midnight - I can't see it being UKO doing that low-level maintenance but I could be wrong. The thought occurs that perhaps some register/counter on the Netgear has wrapped around as it had been up for a couple of weeks with nightly fluctuations in speed. Bitswapping perhaps but why didn't the ST780WL sync?

I'm sure I've seen someone else saying something about SRA and losing sync recently. Who knows where though :D

Edit - oh just to keep roughly on topic. 82GB
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #24 on: November 14, 2007, 07:30:22 PM »

May just be a co-incidence - but somewhere in the back of my memory I seem to recall that certain firmware version in the Netgear caused d/cs at midnight - but this was a nightly occurrence rather than a one-off sort of thing.
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2007, 10:20:55 PM »

165GB and I give up :)

No reaction from UKO but I wouldn't have expected one for 165GB on LLU.

Now to unrar 40GB of stuff and move it across the network. Thank gods for GigE..........  :D
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #26 on: November 30, 2007, 11:27:40 PM »

 :lol:
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2007, 07:42:56 PM »

Well I've just done 207GB in 3 days so we'll see if that gets a reaction.

Some kind soul (with an upload speed of 6,700kB/sec) posted ALL of Cheers on Christmas Day. Yes every single episode in DVD resolution  :clap:

Now if I could only get Series 3 and onwards of Hill St Blues then I'd have all the decent telly from the 1980s - which in retrospect was shown mainly on C4 so I can still claim I paid for it (C4 gets most of its funding from the license fee and always has).
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2007, 10:06:37 PM »

Nice one.

Now you just have to find the time to watch them all :D
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Re: UK Online FUP
« Reply #29 on: December 30, 2007, 11:09:36 PM »

I have the rest of my life kitz and storage is cheap :)

this is usenet remember where the retention is perhaps 90-120 days.

Norm!! :P
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