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	<title>Dan Langille's Other Diary</title>
	<link>http://dan.langille.org</link>
	<description>He has another more popular diary.  This one is more general.</description>
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		<title>Interesting hardware site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do like CoolDrives.com.
I was shown this quick swap drive tray and started hunting around.  This spare parts page is interesting and reminds me that I want to buy different cables for the file server.
Also neat are these hard drive cases for when your HDD is not in use.
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		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/08/interesting-hardware-site/</link>
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		<title>smartmontools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI harddisks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. (The above shamelessly taken from the supplied URL).
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/06/smartmontools/</link>
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		<title>ZFS - some initial testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d run some simple tests, based on a tuning thread I found:

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=./file1 bs=1m count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes transferred in 14.283206 secs (75175127 bytes/sec)

And while the above was running:

# zpool iostat 5
               capacity   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/05/zfs-some-initial-testing/</link>
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		<title>mirroring the hard drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s goals:

Install a second HDD
get gmirror running
install the remaining 5&#215;2TB HDD
add the two RAID cards

After adding in the second HDD for the OS, dmesg shows this:

ad4: 76319MB &#60;seagate ST380815AS 4.AAB&#62; at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s
acd0: DVDR &#60;tsstcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C/SB01&#62; at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s
ad8: 152587MB &#60;wdc WD1600AAJS-75M0A0 02.03E02&#62; at ata4-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s

The following shows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/05/mirroring-the-hard-drive/</link>
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		<title>FreeBSD installed on the server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I managed to:

install a DVD-RW drive
install 1x 80GB SATA drive
connect all the chassis cables to the motherboard
install the network card
install FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
start the upgrade process to FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE
install a few ports: bash, joe, sudo

The photos from tonight.
Here is the output from /var/run/dmesg.boot

Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/04/freebsd-installed-on-the-server/</link>
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		<title>PGCon 2010 - schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The PGCon 2010 schedule has been announced.   Have a read of our outstanding lineup, see where people come from to PGCon, and get your registration started.]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/04/pgcon-2010-schedule/</link>
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		<title>Photos of initial assembly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I put together some of the system.  The motherboard, CPU, RAM, and PSU have been installed.  The system POSTs, but nothing else.  Next step: add a couple of HDD and then install FreeBSD 8.
Photos here: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=13150&#038;id=100000289239443
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		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/03/photos-of-initial-assembly/</link>
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		<title>All shipments delivered!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPS just delivered the box with the 2xSATA drives for the OS, the RAM, and the upgraded PSU.
I have everything to start assembly.  The next question is: when?
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		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/03/all-shipments-delivered/</link>
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		<title>Shipments arriving this week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are the shipments I&#8217;m expecting this week:

Tuesday - RAM and two HDD to be returned
Wednesday - the case
Thursday - two SATA drives for the, RAM, and new PSU

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		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/03/02/shipments-arriving-this-week/</link>
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		<title>The Final Order</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what will be ordered on Monday:

Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD $40
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb $36
Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) $130
ENERMAX INFINITI EIN720AWT 720W PSU $150

I changed one to a different Seagate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/28/the-final-order/</link>
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