RAID level 5
Over the last few months I have taken kind of a break from learning and writing but today I bring to you information on mdadm RAID5 array and growing the array onto another drive.
For the past several months I have been slowly but surely filling up the 4 320gig hard drives I have giving me 880gigs of storage. When one day I went to create a backup image of my desktop and realized that I was running low on space. Of the 880gigs I had at the time I was using everything but about 80gigs of space. To fill all that space took me just under a year, my thinking at the time said “there is no way that I can use up almost a terabyte”. Well I was totally wrong.
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nVidia is poor support
Well let me just say that nVidia is pissing me off again, first they drop support for nforce1 and nforce2 chip sets just before Vista launches, then they sell people graphics cards for Vista that don’t even have non-beta drivers, then they go ahead and make the support of the “legacy” and take out support for even some more of their hardware. Then when they take out the support for the hardware then they stop making new drivers for different xorg servers and make you wait an ungodly time to get a new “legacy” driver.
ATI is just as good
With this new revelation from nVidia it makes the ATI FGLRX driver look like a godsend since at least a small part of it is open source. It’s starting to get to where nVidia is losing the battle against ATI on the Linux front, but then again Intel has all their graphics drivers open source and they are not competeing with the big two. Well intel doesn’t really care about the graphics market since most of thier stuff is built onto motherboards and isn’t expected to perform the same as a non-integrated solution.
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