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Users / Re: Wanna lose data!? Install Linux MCE!

« on: January 15, 2008, 01:18:31 am »

ahhhhhhhhhh norton ghost
ahhhhhhhhhh acronis

ahhhhhhhhhh you spent a week setting something up, and didn't image the drive between each experiment???

hmmm, and external drive and a bootable cd with acronis on it goes a looooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg way
in preventing anxiety, well worth a few bucks. imho.

ahh but then again, the hard lessons are the ones we never forget ;-), I'm sure we've all got stories, I know I've got a few.

have fun.

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Users / Re: older server hardware opinion please

« on: January 14, 2008, 10:17:27 pm »

thanks for the help,
I probably knew that.  I'm an IT guy, just wanted to
put that old hardware to good use.

but, you make a very valid point, old dog hardware that
aint gonna play nice with the new stuff.

thx

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Users / older server hardware opinion please

« on: January 14, 2008, 05:39:14 am »

Hello

I'm a complete linux noob ;-)

I've recently been given a few old IBM servers
netfinity 5500 m20
quad PIII zeon 550 mhz
hot swap SCSI with RAID
(i've got drives that ranging from 4.5 Gb - 73 Gb)
can get up to a few gigs of ram

so, would using this as the 'main' media server be a good idea??
or would I actually get better performance from a new Pentium duo core??? box?

I'm thinking raid 0 for OS, and raid 5 for data.
I've also got a SCSI attached storage box, holds 10 more 80 pin SCSI's.

thx