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RIP Pete’s Pics
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That’s good news Pete. I’d use Linux at the drop of a hat too, and had been using it on a daily basis for the day job for ages, and it’s soooo must better than Windoze. Unfortunately it’s not really a viable platform for photography at this moment in time. At best rudimentary support for colour management, Photoshop/Lightroom etc don’t run. I know GIMP, dcraw et al are out there, but they don’t really cut the mustard unfortunately. I does however have one of the best photo libraries I’ve come across in Kphotoalbum
John
That’s great new Pete.
“The rock that is shaped like a duck” lives on.
Andy
amcinroy wrote:
“The rock that is shaped like a duck” lives on.
Whew! Should be on the lunchtime news! :lol: :lol:
Youse are just jealous because me and the rock like a duck are old mates
and you haven’t even seen it.I’m going to post up photos like Billy-o when I get time. I’m living life
to the full now that I’ve seen into the abyss.So…. I got my 3 x 160GB drives for my RAID5 array and discovered that Windows XP
doesn’t do RAID5 and I wasn’t about to buy a RAID5 controller so I started looking for
alternatives. I could buy a cheap RAID 0 or 1 controller but my mobo could do that
and I’d still have a spare drive and no real solution. I started googling and discovered that
RAID5 is built into XP but not switched on. You have to edit 3 system files in a hex editor
and replace the originals at a (non-windoze) command prompt. I did this, formatted my new
300GB RAID5 drive and away I went. My remaining concern is that 4 drives (my original
system drive is still there) in 5 bays are getting pretty warm during running. I may need more cooling.It does mean that I have a big storage drive with built in failure protection.
Well done-
Oddly enough, I could follow most of that techie stuff-I never got as far as Raid5,
is there a speed advantage too?j
jb7 wrote:
I never got as far as Raid5,
is there a speed advantage too?
jThere should be a speed advantage as data will be read in parallel from multiple disks – how much in practice will depend on the hardware (controller etc). The main thing though is that it gives you the security of a hard disk being able to die without data loss.
John
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