Got a new storage server, it’s a PE2900 from Dell. Installed FreeBSD 7.2 on it, rebuilt the kernel with all the updates and included:
options iscsi_initiator
connected to the iSCSI target across the LAN, then I used:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testiscsi/file.out bs=65536
to test the speeds after mounting it. I observed horrific speeds (in the range of 300-500KB/s).
To [...]
I hate it. I didn’t buy it, someone else did and I got stuck “using” it, then selling it.
It came preconfigured with a bunch of 300GB SAS 15K RPM drives in it for use with iSCSI. To me that makes no sense. What’s the point of the HUGELY fast drives in something [...]
Here’s my horrible looking summer schedule. I can’t wait for August 15th.
Seriously? History of Folk Music?!?!
One more semester after this!!!
http://www.easymac.org/~uminac/schedule.pdf
So, I hate hard drives. I think everything about them is like a bad flashback to the 1980’s. They have something that constantly spins (stupid), which means they require lots of power (also stupid) and in turn generate lots of heat (ridiculous). All that aside, they’re by far the slowest part of [...]
Why don’t they let you download images with anything except picasa?! Isn’t that a feature that the world might like? Why do you have to install picasa to download a friend’s web album?
Google, you’re the worst company ever. You’re the queens of doing 85% of something.
EDIT: Thanks to Scabdates, I now [...]