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a2j, I know what you mean. But isn't that exactly the reason behind a server? To have a machine that is more capable then any single client could be, thus having multiple network interfaces (even a...

Thanks rubylaser, good to know.

You could be right with that one. I just thought the pictures are a nice addition if one is not familiar with headless servers. That's really the only reason why I pulled that up.

I see. I wasn't really aware that there is/was a change in sector size.

Of course, different size wouldn't make sense in a RAID, as the smallest drive set the max space per drive used. I wouldn't...

Helpful how-to for server setup, might not all apply to you, but maybe at least partially helpful:

Ubuntu 10.04 server
Debian 5.0 server

I also would say that 10.04 would be the better choice, you can get the next LTS going after it has been out for a while and is tried and tested and stable.
Ubuntu is based on Debian. Unlike...

I wouldn't have thought that different drives in an array would cause trouble. Actually I was thinking about getting e.g. 4-5 Seagate and 4-5 Hitachi. Exactly for the reason rubylaser mentioned.
Is...

It's pretty much as I thought. Laptop drives usually are 5400RPM but for the love of me I don't recognise any speed difference to a desktop with similar specs.

Thanks to you guys I got a lot more...

Found a Hitachi Deskstar 2TB for AU$191.
A Samsung I saw for AU$152, but this is a slow spinning (5400RPM) drive. Not sure if that matters so much in a RAID 10.

Well, I was thinking about an Atom based system after realising that I really don't need any processing power. So, why waste power and money on something like an Athlon, Phenom, i3, etc. if an Atom...

RAID 0 will kinda be the last option. Unless the storage space is really needed I'd prefer something like RAID 10 or 5. My problem, though, seems to be that I have trouble finding affordable...

Thank you all that is great info. Thumbs up.



Yes, that's right, they are very different. But at first I thought I can't do what I want/need to do with RAID 10, hence my thoughts regarding RAID...

I just tried a FreeNAS setup with some hardware I have here at home. At first I had problems creating shares for others to access those, but eventually I got NFS working, SAMBA hasn't come alive yet....

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Thanks for the info, that gives hope. A single server might be more capable then I thought it would be. Actually, I doubt that the videos are anywhere near that quality. This is something I...

We are planning on building a NAS server to store a lot of media files with the intention to be able to stream video and audio into different rooms. Meaning, only internal network, not streaming over...

From my understanding a lot of those issues are due to Unity. That would not be the case with Xubuntu or Kubuntu. Also, as I understand it, if one switches from Unity to good ol' Gnome, most of said...

Now I almost forgot to rely... :oops:
Thank you very much, that basically did the trick. I somehow suspected the issue have something to do with this folder, or better say the contents thereof. So,...

So, it's still not working.

Update, reboot, trying to make sense of config files... nothing seems to change anything. The only things I successfully managed to to was to change in the "Advanced"...

But you did read my complete message, did you? I'll quote myself and make the relevant part obvious to observe...



I hope that makes it obvious enough?

And because of that, because I AM the problem, I convinced my Firefox to help me out a little bit...

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If you have a separate /home partition it's actually rather easy to do a fresh install without losing any of your data. I did that a couple days ago (for the first time), as well.
Usually I just...

Hi everyone,
I would like to have a problem... :D

I installed 11.04 two or three days ago and all was fine. Worked almost too perfect for a new system. ;)
Today I added a guest account on that...

While you are at it, copy all hidden folders from your home folder over to your backup. All those folders starting with a '.' This is were the apps store all the settings, etc.
I got that good...

I'm sure no expert in these things since I hardly edit any video.
May only guess would be to double check that an effect is not occidentally applied twice on top of each other. And if nothing else...

You are most welcome.
I'm glad it worked out.

Cheers,
L&G