Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Jan 17 16:24:27 CST 2007
Well John; The RAID drives are mostly duplication... just add a couple or 320GB, single partition drives ($200.00) and you could have a mirrored backup. Fast, reliable and (in context) cheap... who says you can't have it all I have done this using an Ubuntu Linux. It uses a real old box (1.5 years old with four older small 100GB drives), the install was easier than Windows, (and when I say it is easy it really is. The only prompts that require entry are how much space to allocate for the partition(s) and an admin password.), it took only 15 minutes to connect to the network (which has always been the biggest pain when managing mix systems). The resultant partition created was across the all the drives making 400GBs of space. It is real cheap and fast. I have been selling this backup concept to clients who want a reliable cheap backup and have made a few sales. Even one government office is seriously planning on contracting my services. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of JWColby Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:47 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! Jim, I have WAY more free room than that. My system drive (C:) has several gigabytes left, hundreds of times the 20mb on that systems drive. ;-) If it weren't for the cost of a high speed RAID controller, massive capacity hard drives are now within reach for us average joes. I have a real need of course, but I bought 8 320g Seagates for $95 each delivered. The RAID controller cost me 60% of that amount at $500. In the end, for about $1300 I built a raid 6 raid array which contains (after deducting 2 drives for parity striping) 6 X 300 (real) gbytes for almost 1.8 terrabytes of storage. And this thing is WICKED fast, streaming read data at over 300 mbytes / sec. AND it can lose two drives and still continue to work. For someone in my position, that is an incredible bargain. Now if I could just figure out how to back it up economically. ;-) John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:31 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! Charlotte: There seemed to be so much more room on drives. The first major site I designed and installed had a full unlimited Novell network; a hand built POS, accounting system, word processors (bought), ran across 2 offices in different cities and allowed remote access from a home office. All for a large book store. The server had 386-20Mhz, 8MB RAM, 20MB HD. It was not that long ago. We just work in one of the world's fastest changing industries. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:17 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! >>Ah, I remember the days of 8 and 10 GB drives. Youngster! LOL *I* remember the days of 10Mb drives! Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of artful at rogers.com Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:01 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! What an excellent thing to do with an old beater box. I have a few of those around. Do you version-control everything or just database projects? (I ask because at the last large gig I worked on, everything was versioned. It never occurred to me before that how valuable it was to version every technical document relating to a project. Once I realized that, the small leap to versioning stories, books, articles, etc. was obvious. Ah, I remember the days of 8 and 10 GB drives. One can trace the lineage of this box with no more evidence than that. It must have been a big step up to add the 30 GB drive LOL. A. ----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:22:24 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! Arthur, I use Subversion as it utilizes an old beater box, 300Mhz, 256MB RAM, 3 drives, (8, 10 & 30GB) and a handcrafted ancient Linux.... works great and is more reliable than most of the other high performance stuff around the office. Mind you if it ever fails..... 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