[rescue] Overkill on an SS2

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> We'll see what I can come up with.  The space will come from some not
> yet determined number of seagate elite 23s that will be just striped.
> I've thought of, but haven't decided) of throughing in a FastSCSI2
> card with intergrated ethernet.  Then I could put the fast disks on a
> seperate bus from the boot disk and cdrom, and additionally I could
> assign one ethernet port an IP and server only flac files from it, and
> have the other port and IP be used for everything else.  This would be
> a somewhat crude way of getting close enough to guaranteed QOS for
> playing FLAC files.  Right now my flac server and all my other files
> are on one machine with one single 10mbit interface, and so FLAC files
> during network copies are problematic.

I suppose if it's just serving 10Mbit ether, then 2 of the disks on the
chain with the boot and CDROM is okay.  IF you start hitting a third
or more, I'd start thinking about that additional card seriously...

--Kurt