Recent content by abhaybhegde

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    Things that can done in a RAID server ( from a Graduate level Project perspective )

    Yes , you are correct . But i would like to have a hands on experience as to how things behave in a RAID server.
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    Things that can done in a RAID server ( from a Graduate level Project perspective )

    Hi all. I intend to do an Academic project based on RAID technology. The basic idea is to implement RAID 0 ,1 ,5 on my College Intranet server. I am thinking of doing this project from an Industry perspective so that it can be helpful in building my Resume . What generally are the...
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    Raid0 Double Transfer Rate - Worth for gaming?

    You will loose your data only if you have data . :) What i mean is , there is no point in making RAID 0 of 500GB disks. RAID 0 arrays should be as minimal as possible , and all the personal stuffs in a separate hard drives. How would i loose my data if it's present in a separate disk untouched...
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    Rendering- CPU intensive or GPU intesive?

    Thanks for the detailed reply Modelworks. So bottom line is that CPU provides a generic approach where one can incorporate larger rendering based applications , whereas GPU is highly specific. Something like coding in High language and Assembly Language.. is it ? I wanted to benchmark certain...
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    Rendering- CPU intensive or GPU intesive?

    Thanks for the response , Are there any freeware which lets me benchmark ray tracing images on two different CPUs
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    Rendering- CPU intensive or GPU intesive?

    Hi, so what do you think? Is rendering a CPU intensive or GPU intesive? Also Why? Cheers
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    Need opinions to select on RAID options .

    Is it necessary that for a RAID system the drives need to be from the same vendor? like either 2 WD hard drives(RAID 0) or 2 Seagate. Can we have hard drives of different vendors.?
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    Need opinions to select on RAID options .

    Thanks Emulex, could you please elaborate on it?. I am totally new to RAID concept (practically as well as theoretically). From googling so far i have narrowed down to these conclusions RAID 0 - Highest speedup, lowest secure RAID 1- Lowest speedup,Highest secure RAID 5 -A blend of both...
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    Need opinions to select on RAID options .

    Greetings I am having an Asus P7P55D mobo, which can support 4 Raid levels.. RAID 0,RAID 1,RAID 5,RAID 10 I plan to have a RAID server in my college Intranet which currently has around 50-75 computers connected through LAN and hosted by only one single server.(non RAID) My primary...
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    ubuntu not being detected

    Thanks for all the replies guys. So , what would be the best/safe way to Install Ubuntu in that 10gb . I am already having 2 primary partitions and a 4gb of RAM
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    ubuntu not being detected

    hmm here's a Screenshot from Partition magic. I would like to install linux in the Linux swap partition...how do i do it? This was the same partition which i used before. http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3204/66504562.jpg
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    ubuntu not being detected

    The windows is in /dev/sda1 hmm let me clarify.. I am having basically 2 hard drives 500gb and a 160gb. 160gb can be discarded as of now (as i intend to use it for storage only) In the 500gb hardrive there totally 3 partitons , C: ~42gb (OS drive )[/dev/sda1 in the pic] D...
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    ubuntu not being detected

    Hi everyone, please have a look at the screenshot. http://yfrog.com/4vscreenshotyyp (i am about to create the home partition) As you can see from the screenshot, i am having 2 Hard disk- 500GB + 160GB I am using the 500gb to install Ubuntu. It has totally 3 partions (including an...
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    ext4 file creation failed

    I found a workaround. After backing all the data , i thought why not change the sata ports and plug the hard drive to another port. It worked..My machine started normally as before. Earlier the process was daam slow..almost 6 -7 mins for the startup screen. No more delayed write error as well...!
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    ext4 file creation failed

    One more thing i forgot to mention. I am currenly on the Ubuntu live CD. I am not able to create even a single text file in the other partions.. have look at the screenshot http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5538/screenshotsg.png Also when i am on Windows , even though i freshly installed it...