Hi Guys,
Small support task (probably about 1 day, maybe 2 including backing up
existing data) to help out a local company between Andover and Stockbridge. If
anyone is able to help, let me know and I'll put you in touch. I have given
the enquirer some basic details on RAID, and advised that he doesn't move to a
windows server, as per last part of thier e-mail.
Cheers,
Tim B.
Original Message below:
To: chairman@???
Hi Tim
I wonder if you could help us. Do you know anyone who could configure a
Suse RAID 5 Array on a fairly old machine so that we can increase the
disk sizes?
We are a small video company between Andover and Stockbridge
Details are -
We have a Tyan 2892 mb in a 16 X HD server chassis. We only use it as a
place to keep our very large video file back ups. It connects by gigabit
ethernet to our Win 7 work stations. (We have to have Windows to run
Adobe production software)
It has 16 HD including a sys drive, some office data (which we can put
anywhere else) and 12 X 750 Gig of video files in a RAID 5 array
We want to change 6 HDs initially with 2TB HDs. At present most the data
is already copied off.
We had thought our one year old version of Suse and our RAID controller
(unknown to us at present) would enable us to upgrade one disk at a time.
Failing that we would configure two arrays, one to hold the new disks
and one to use the rest of the existing ones.
The Suse and server have run faultlessly for several years.We have had 2
or 3 single failed HDs that get replaced and re-stripe/restore RAID 5
data with no problems.
We cannot find a local Linux person to call on for occasional support so
were thinking we should move to Windows - but we don`t really want to
although we are ourselves reasonably proficient with Windows (started
before XP now on Win 7 - 6 work station PCs.
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