I am in search of a raid solution. I have been pretty interested in the Drobo but due to the cost of what you get I am not sure its the best method, though the idea is cool. I am thinking instead of maybe getting a few 1tb+ drives and a cheap RAID card and tossing it all into my Linux box as it would provide a lot more than just a storage device, not to mention the cost would be much less. What does everyone think?
Loading ...I have been meaning to post about htop for sometime now.. but for some reason me being lazy has stopped the posting process. Anyways Htop is a really nice program to get the information that top would normally show you, but it looks a lot nicer. I highly suggest taking a look at it. I know Ubuntu has a package for it as well.
Can you spot the IDE drive in the mix
Drive One
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 422 MB in 2.00 seconds = 210.72 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 220 MB in 3.03 seconds = 72.72 MB/sec
Drive Two
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 412 MB in 2.00 seconds = 205.55 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 224 MB in 3.01 seconds = 74.37 MB/sec
Drive Three
/dev/sdc:
Timing cached reads: 420 MB in 2.00 seconds = 209.78 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 240 MB in 3.01 seconds = 79.66 MB/sec
Drive Four
/dev/sdd:
Timing cached reads: 442 MB in 2.00 seconds = 220.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 76 MB in 3.06 seconds = 24.81 MB/sec
I got on a fix today about ads on websites, I already use Adblock Plus as well as the Adblock Filterset.G Updater in Firefox. But I wanted to take it a step further. I adid so with the following steps.
Opened up terminal and added the following list to my /etc/hosts file.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt
After this you need to flush the DNS cache
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
All set. You can of course use this on Windows/Linux and other versions of OS X. For older versions of OS X the dscacheutil command is not the same.
So the last couple of days my internet connection has been acting pretty strange. Pinging my fileserver was taking about 4000-6000ms … which is not normal. When pinging the LinkSys WRT54G running DD-WRT v24 it was taking about 30ms which is pretty high. All of a sudden my wireless dropped and all the settings were reset to DD-WRT default …. Spent about an hour setting it all back up, while doing so I decided to upgrade to the newest version of v24. All seems well now and much quicker to boot.
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