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I was at a LAN party this weekend, it's been about 2 months since the majority of us got together to game on any large scale, programs needed updating and even just needed installing, the usual.
But, my gaming computer is out of commission. And no one else was sharing, so only one person had any data worth sharing, namely Steam files and updates for COD4, 2142, etc.
Take a guess at what happened.
The network slowed to a halt, internet basically crashed and pinged out at 200ms, all that fun stuff.
Basically, everyone was pulling a few files from one single hard drive.
Now, we know one of our bottlenecks, that of the 10/100 daisy-chain switch variety, but another one we realised was only one of our folks was being used as a 'server'
We discussed it, and we pinpointed the bottleneck being specifically the throughput of the hard drive, mostly because the person 'serving' was using SATA I, and everyone was accessing it.
But, this is where my title comes in: I have some spare hardware, and willing to invest in a couple of cheap disks. Our data is of minimal value, and if a disk dies, we can just reformat and back on our way.
All of the data we are pulling needs to be contiguous, which is what (I believe) RAID 0 is perfect for.
Basically, downtime is not an issue, basic performance on the bandwidth level is most important here.
So, can I get some help? Point out the flaws in my logic, tell me how cool of a dude I am, etc.
But, my gaming computer is out of commission. And no one else was sharing, so only one person had any data worth sharing, namely Steam files and updates for COD4, 2142, etc.
Take a guess at what happened.
The network slowed to a halt, internet basically crashed and pinged out at 200ms, all that fun stuff.
Basically, everyone was pulling a few files from one single hard drive.
Now, we know one of our bottlenecks, that of the 10/100 daisy-chain switch variety, but another one we realised was only one of our folks was being used as a 'server'
We discussed it, and we pinpointed the bottleneck being specifically the throughput of the hard drive, mostly because the person 'serving' was using SATA I, and everyone was accessing it.
But, this is where my title comes in: I have some spare hardware, and willing to invest in a couple of cheap disks. Our data is of minimal value, and if a disk dies, we can just reformat and back on our way.
All of the data we are pulling needs to be contiguous, which is what (I believe) RAID 0 is perfect for.
Basically, downtime is not an issue, basic performance on the bandwidth level is most important here.
So, can I get some help? Point out the flaws in my logic, tell me how cool of a dude I am, etc.