[geeks] ADMIN NOTE: Server upgrade soon

[Bill Bradford]

Just wanted to say a very big thank to you to everyone that has
contributed so far.  Looks like I'll be getting that "Raid Edition" drive
after all!

Bill

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:33:06PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Hey folks,
> A status update on the machine that hosts all these lists, SunHELP, an IRC
> server, and lots of folks' DNS, email handling, and shell accounts:
> The long-delayed upgrade of ohno.mrbill.net from an E420R (quad 450s, 4G
> RAM, dual 18G hard drives) to a T1000 (8 cores, 32 threads, 8G RAM) will
> finally happen in the next 30-60 days.  I'll be going to S10u6 with ZFS
> root of course.
> I've taken up a collection from some of the major users of the system
> (shell, email, etc) and I'll be upgrading the 80G drive that came with the
> system to a 1T drive (most likely a Western Digital "Caviar Black"
> WD1001FALS, unless someone has other suggestions).  
> I thought about putting in one of the WD10EADS "Caviar Green" drives but
> they've only got a 3-year warranty and I don't think they're really meant
> for heavy-duty server use.  I'd love to put the WD "RE3" Raid Edition drive
> in, but they're $50 more than the WD1001FALS.
> Depending on funds, I will probably also purchase another WD10EADS drive to
> put in my rsnapshot backup server here at home, and backup *all* of the
> user homedirs and data on the new machine and eliminate the " you're
> responsible for your own backups" policy.  
> If any member of these lists has gotten use and enjoyment out of the
> services I provide (12 years and counting so far!) and would like to
> contribute to the upgrade fund, please let me know offlist.  
> There will be a few hours of downtime over a weekend sometime in the next
> couple of months (I'll give plenty of warning).  
> Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas