Upgrading a RAID-5 Arrary
I’m in the beginning stages of upgrading my Linux software RAID-5 array that’s used to store all kinds of content. I’ve currently got a 4 drive array (320G drives in a 3 drive array with a hot-spare) set up in my home server. One of the drive finally died the other day (4 years old or so) and as expected, the hot-spare kicked into service. I could lose another drive and things would be okay, but it’s not comforting to think about that as all the data isn’t backed up regularly (the important stuff is.) The server runs an ASUS K8N-E Deluxe board and I happen to have a spare one of those that I use as my testing motherboard. This gave me the opportunity to install Centos 5.4 on a spare drive to build the new array (1.5TB Samsung drives — well it will when the rest of the drives get here.) The K8N-E Deluxe uses the Silicon Image 3114 chipset for on-board RAID. I use …
The Plus Side of Hyper Inflation
...at least when inflation (and possibly hyper-inflation) comes after our “stimulus” kicks in, it’ll be simple to pay off my debt. Granted, that wheelbarrow full of money that I just used to pay off my house will only buy a loaf of bread. That will be 100% awesome!!!
Does anybody really think that spending 875 billion (when the bulk of it doesn’t even hit until 2010) is really stimulative? If we wanted it to be stimulative, how about just giving everybody a $5000 home improvement credit. That would re-stimulate the construction industry. Or how about repealing the capital gains tax for a year and phase it back in. That would stimulate investment in new business which would give people jobs.
Instead we’re stuck with a bunch of the stimulus money coming too late and going to pet projects. And when it hits, the money that the fed has been printing will go out into the economy devaluing the dollar. Otherwise known as inflation.
Speaking of bad news, what do we do in California? Kill car sales with a doubling of the vehicle license fee (forcing …
