Archive for the 'storage' Category
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
SS4200 is an Intel NAS enclosure for around $200, specs: 1G Ether, 4xSATA HDD, 1.6 intel celeron CPU, 512 MB RAM. Comes with some linux firmware or windows home server. This post tells how to install openfiler on it.
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
comparative review of different DHT scalable systems
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Posted in Computers, crazy, for:collidr, SSD, storage | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
fully-distributed network file system (fully = no separate meta-data servers ). Supports data redundancy (data can be stripped/mirrored across several nodes), supposed to be high performance. supports encryption and can be embedded in app server (i….
Posted in cluster, distributed, filesystem, for:collidr, fs, Linux, opensource, scalability, storage, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink
Monday, October 13th, 2008
social everything, now it’s social online file sharing
Posted in filesharing, online, sharing, social, socialnetworking, storage, web, web2.0 | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
a paper from microsoft research comparing perfomance of 2 systems: metadata in db + files in fs vs. meatadata + files as blobs in db. Study uses MSSQL and NTFS. Datasets are in less than 1 GB size.
Posted in blob, database, design, development, filesystem, filesystems, fragmentaion, fragmentation, infomation, mssql, ntfs, research, shortcut:database, sql, storage, system | Comments Off | permalink
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
JULY-2008: adaptec SAS 8 port with 6 SATA HDDs vs MD-RAID for 5, 6 and 10
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
bonnie++ benchmark comparing dell perc 5 (lsi) hw raid controllers connected to Dell md1000 jbod box and linux md raid driver. (test was performed by a notable PostgreSQL developer )
Posted in benchmark, database, for:collidr, Linux, mdadm, performance, raid, raid_harware, raid_software, storage | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, May 30th, 2008
sort of a lecture slides/presenation that contains a useful explaination how several LVM2 features actually work (i.e. backup)
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
notes on 3ware 9550XS vs md RAID1 for various filesystems on Linux
Posted in benchmark, ext3, filesystems, for:collidr, Linux, md, mdadm, raid, raid_harware, storage, xfs | Comments Off | permalink