Re: Entirely off-topic harddisk questions

From: #2pencil (number2pencil_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/28/05 

Date: 28 Jun 2005 10:39:08 -0700

> What do you think about 24/7 operation and reliability of laptop disks
Call Seagate or your favorite vendor & ask what they would recomend.

> I have serious difficulties deciding between an 5400 RPM Seagate 3.5
> disk and a 4200 or 5400 RPM laptop disk. Do you think there is any
> noticable difference between these, performance and noise level wise ?

Load the server with ram & make a ram drive. Then make a symbolic link
from the drive to ram, dump your server files into ram & it's a lot
less overhead for the hard drive. Put in your starup script to dump
the ram drive, put into your shutdown script to back it up onto hard
disk. I do this with an old 500 mb hard disk in order to back up my
web server pages that I run on a ram disk. I've been doing this for
over a year, running it on a UPS with zero issues, no regrets.

Best of luck,
-#2pencil-
http://www.akroncdnr.com

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