the cube
I just realized that my datacube is just about five years old. Well, the CPU and motherboard of it. And I'm not sure of the exact date because oddly I didn't post about it when I built it. Obviously the disks aren't 5 years old, nor the little CF card containing /boot which is wedged into the chassis and wrapped in notebook paper to prevent shorts, nor one of the RAM sticks. Oh and I replaced the chassis a while back because it was getting uncomfily hot with 3 disks and a CF card crammed inside.
But the point is, this computer has been in 24/7/365 operation for five years and hasn't failed me yet. Very likely at better than 99.5% uptime counting when I went on vacation and shut it off before I started using it remotely. VIA makes good boards.
I can live with the poky processor to this very day. The only thing that's eventually going to have me sending its poor little guts & brain to Free Geek is the fact that it only has a 100bT NIC, no free slots (SATA controller takes up the only one) and there are no good USB (lol) or Firewire 1000bT options that work in Linux. 100bT is finally, after mmmm something like 7 years, becoming too goddamn slow for my home LAN.
If the apocalypse doesn't come, that'll probably happen soon, because AGAIN:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 2.8G 2.1G 591M 78% /
tmpfs 118M 0 118M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 72K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 118M 0 118M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 480M 22M 434M 5% /boot
/dev/md1 912G 898G 14G 99% /shares
However, it's this other thing I like to see. For some applications, Linux does Just Work™, at least if you're using a non-POS distro. Debian in this case, because duh.
# uptime
20:09:57 up 59 days, 22:28, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.13
The datacube is now backed by the essentially unlimited capacity of Amazon S3, but until I get my 20Mbps FTTN connection in my apartment (hurry the fuck UP, Qwest), that's just for backing up important stuff should the RAID fail catastrophically.
Anyway. Friday, yay. Oh, while looking for old datacube posts, I also found this. And the fact that nobody commented on it is proof positive that nobody has been reading my journal since 2005. :P
PS: I still have the disks from the last two incarnations of the datacube sitting on top of my printer in paper bags. Two 300GB PATA from its last gasp as a RAID 1 box, and three 320GB SATA. (Current configuration is 3x500GB in RAID 5 giving me, as seen above, about a terabyte of useful space which I have 99% filled with less-than-useful files.)
These disks are worth like $5 or $10 now, maybe $15 if that. Anybody need some disks?
But the point is, this computer has been in 24/7/365 operation for five years and hasn't failed me yet. Very likely at better than 99.5% uptime counting when I went on vacation and shut it off before I started using it remotely. VIA makes good boards.
I can live with the poky processor to this very day. The only thing that's eventually going to have me sending its poor little guts & brain to Free Geek is the fact that it only has a 100bT NIC, no free slots (SATA controller takes up the only one) and there are no good USB (lol) or Firewire 1000bT options that work in Linux. 100bT is finally, after mmmm something like 7 years, becoming too goddamn slow for my home LAN.
If the apocalypse doesn't come, that'll probably happen soon, because AGAIN:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 2.8G 2.1G 591M 78% /
tmpfs 118M 0 118M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 72K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 118M 0 118M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 480M 22M 434M 5% /boot
/dev/md1 912G 898G 14G 99% /shares
However, it's this other thing I like to see. For some applications, Linux does Just Work™, at least if you're using a non-POS distro. Debian in this case, because duh.
# uptime
20:09:57 up 59 days, 22:28, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.13
The datacube is now backed by the essentially unlimited capacity of Amazon S3, but until I get my 20Mbps FTTN connection in my apartment (hurry the fuck UP, Qwest), that's just for backing up important stuff should the RAID fail catastrophically.
Anyway. Friday, yay. Oh, while looking for old datacube posts, I also found this. And the fact that nobody commented on it is proof positive that nobody has been reading my journal since 2005. :P
PS: I still have the disks from the last two incarnations of the datacube sitting on top of my printer in paper bags. Two 300GB PATA from its last gasp as a RAID 1 box, and three 320GB SATA. (Current configuration is 3x500GB in RAID 5 giving me, as seen above, about a terabyte of useful space which I have 99% filled with less-than-useful files.)
These disks are worth like $5 or $10 now, maybe $15 if that. Anybody need some disks?