OK, a bit late off the mark, but I’ve only just got around to getting onto my blog to write about my day. So I woke up this morning, expecting to have to change my brake pads when I heard the dribbling of the gutter. I assumed it was raining, but interestingly – it was not. I looked out the window, and couldn’t quite believe my eyes. It was snowing, in April! Just a few days after Thursday, the hottest day of the year so far, it had started snowing. Brake pads were off for the time being, so I headed to Novatech and picked up the afformentioned new power supplies for my servers.
I spent most of today setting up the new main server, which I am currently installing Ubuntu on. It took absolutely ages to set up the 600GB RAID array, as to be expected, even though they are SATA drives! Still, formatting 1200GB worth of physical hard disk data takes some time. I decided to make the main array a RAID 10 instead of RAID5 after reading some random Googled posts about the two. So the 4x 300GB disks are mirrored and striped, so I’ve got a nice big 600GB of data drive. The 2 other 300GB disks will be used for mail & databases etc., and they will be mirrored. Not ideal to mirror a database drive that requires fast read/write speeds, but I’ve made the mistake of not having redundancy and I thnk it’s something I can afford to be honest!
The current main server is chugging away nicely now with it’s new PSU which actually has a working fan now. I didn’t realise how little the server actually needed – all that’s in there is 1x 40GB, 1x 200GB, an Intel Celeron 1.7GHz and 512MB RAM. The new server is of course a vast improvement, and should be much better.
Anyway, here are a few pictures I took of the snow around my area this morning:
December 11th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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