I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on Debian Linux (Lenny).
I immediately performed some initial tests with software RAID 0. The results are just astounding.
debian:~# dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=50000
50000+0 records in
50000+0 records out
52428800000 bytes (52 GB) copied, 50.9222 s, 1.0 GB/s
This is correct. 1 Gigabyte per second using 10 Samsung Spinpoint F1's connected to the motherboard (4) and to the Highpoint Rocketraid 2340 (6).
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion. The current 6 TB RAID 6 storage server does not have any room for expantion.
This Norco RPC-4020 case with 20 hot swap drive bays does however. Don't know what to fill it with yet.
The Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) is a small Bash script that acts as a library for bash scripts. It provides a couple of functions that makes the lives of most people using shell scripts a bit easier.
The purpose of this library is to provide pre-build functions for actions that often need to be performed, focussing on error-checking and logging. In this example, a test-script is written that demonstrates the functions the library provides.
The project can be found at this location.
