NewEgg – RMA
NewEgg has received and processed my returned purchases. I’m impressed. I mailed them on Thursday (I think) and here it is, Wednesday. I should expect to see the refunds on my credit card within 2-3 days.
Interesting hardware site
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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smartmontools
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 just installed it: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ && make install clean Then I set up the configuration file, with
ZFS – some initial testing
I thought I’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 operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ———- —– —– —– —– —– —– storage 1.25G 9.06T 0 3 95 402K storage 1.25G 9.06T 0 0
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mirroring the hard drive
Tonight’s goals: Install a second HDD get gmirror running install the remaining 5x2TB HDD add the two RAID cards After adding in the second HDD for the OS, dmesg shows this: ad4: 76319MB <seagate ST380815AS 4.AAB> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s acd0: DVDR <tsstcorp CDDVDW SH-S223C/SB01> at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s ad8: 152587MB <wdc WD1600AAJS-75M0A0 02.03E02> at ata4-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s The following shows me I’m booting from ad4, so ad8 must be
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FreeBSD installed on the server
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, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of
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PGCon 2010 – schedule
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.
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Photos of initial assembly
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&id=100000289239443
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All shipments delivered!
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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Shipments arriving this week
These are the shipments I’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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