Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

box is such an important server to my home network, while the last time it failed wasn't due to drive failure...there had been times in its past where it was. And, since I was playing around with RAID a lot on orac, I decided that it was probably time… more »

Was discussion storage speeds with some friends over lunch....so I wondered if I could get some data comparing the performance.vg0 is are two internal SATA drives, each on their own SATA channel, being mirrored. vg1 is the SANS Digital pair of drive… more »

I've been wanting to try a Port Multiplier eSATA enclosure on my Ubuntu 8.04LTS Server, known as 'orac', for sometime. But, keep getting sidelined by how much it would cost to get a 5-bay enclosure and 5 drives... it would only be a matter of time that… more »

On Monday there was a brief power outage....I didn't notice from work at first, because the UPS there were no issues affecting the computers at home that I accessed from work. Two didn't go down at all, and one rebooted by itself.The Windows 2000 ha… more »