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  • Re: What to do?

    From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, June 29, 2020 21:39:00
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Sounds like a good solution. Relatively cheap and not too much
    work. :-)

    Postscript:

    I ended up doing a system restore and going back to the old
    driver/app combo. Last night, the system wanted to update again
    and updated the driver. Again, the app broke. I did some googling
    around and found a Windows Store app that does work with my
    driver and OS, provides notification of drive failyure and as a side-benefit, the RAID feels much faster now than with the 8
    year-old driver I was using...

    Cool! So it turned out "completely cheap" and not too much work.
    Win-Win. :-)



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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 13:02:28
    On 6/26/2020 7:55 AM, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
    2. Ditch the RAID and buy an SSD to get a nice speed boost. I could
    leave the RAID as-is as a data drive or break the pair, use the drives
    for backups and be done with RAID. Low cost, medium effort.

    This would probably be my choice... SSD is a crazy boost over spinning
    rust for random access. Should mostly notice the difference for your message/network access. Combined with a good backup plan of course.

    3. I found a refurbished Dell T3610 with a Xeon 3.0 ghz quad core and
    16 GB of RAM for $200, I could possibly swing that. I'd need to move
    my current drives to it and re-make the RAID, I doubt it would
    recognize the RAID pair from an older controller. Once I was done, I
    could use the old box as a BBS box. High cost, high effort, biggest
    return.

    Depends on your use case and needs tbh, would probably hold out for
    something newer.

    4. Ditch Windows 10 and put Linux on the existing RAID array, I have a
    backup drive I could use to copy the data to, and linux' md tools work
    with the older RAID just fine from what I've read. I could leave the
    RAID as-is, install the OS, format the drive as ext4, then copy the
    data from backup. It's probably run better with the 8gb of RAM than
    Windows 10. Low to medium effort, low cost.

    Linux works very well, but I haven't even tried setting up doors yet.

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    Michael J. Ryan
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