[geeks] ADMIN NOTE: Server upgrade soon

[Lionel Peterson]

Sorry.

Zipzoomfly had the WD black TB HD for $100-110 yesterday...

Lionel

On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> Just wanted to say a very big thank to you to everyone that has
> contributed so far.  Looks like I'll be getting that "Raid Edition"  
> drive
> after all!
>
> Bill
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:33:06PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>> A status update on the machine that hosts all these lists, SunHELP,  
>> an IRC
>> server, and lots of folks' DNS, email handling, and shell accounts:
>> The long-delayed upgrade of ohno.mrbill.net from an E420R (quad  
>> 450s, 4G
>> RAM, dual 18G hard drives) to a T1000 (8 cores, 32 threads, 8G RAM)  
>> will
>> finally happen in the next 30-60 days.  I'll be going to S10u6 with  
>> ZFS
>> root of course.
>> I've taken up a collection from some of the major users of the system
>> (shell, email, etc) and I'll be upgrading the 80G drive that came  
>> with the
>> system to a 1T drive (most likely a Western Digital "Caviar Black"
>> WD1001FALS, unless someone has other suggestions).
>> I thought about putting in one of the WD10EADS "Caviar Green"  
>> drives but
>> they've only got a 3-year warranty and I don't think they're really  
>> meant
>> for heavy-duty server use.  I'd love to put the WD "RE3" Raid  
>> Edition drive
>> in, but they're $50 more than the WD1001FALS.
>> Depending on funds, I will probably also purchase another WD10EADS  
>> drive to
>> put in my rsnapshot backup server here at home, and backup *all* of  
>> the
>> user homedirs and data on the new machine and eliminate the " you're
>> responsible for your own backups" policy.
>> If any member of these lists has gotten use and enjoyment out of the
>> services I provide (12 years and counting so far!) and would like to
>> contribute to the upgrade fund, please let me know offlist.
>> There will be a few hours of downtime over a weekend sometime in  
>> the next
>> couple of months (I'll give plenty of warning).
>> Bill
>
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> Houston, Texas
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