I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

Post by dcambie » Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 6:15 PM UTC

Post by muhammadusman » Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

game-of-throws wrote: post #6

You're playing with fire using RAID0. If I had data on 30 floppy drives, I'd want at least 20 of them to be parity drives.

Post by throwaway742 » Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 6:24 PM UTC

Post by hotpotamus » Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 6:30 PM UTC

LarryPage wrote: post #15

Nextgrid wrote: post #3

I'd expect the vast majority of IO requests to be served from the kernel's IO cache (we're talking 30 * 1.44MBs here so just under 50MB, trivial for even an old computer to hold in RAM), thus I wouldn't be surprised for it to be very fast and reliable as long as he sticks to read-only workloads - those would never actually touch the floppies beyond the initial read.

I did watch -n 1 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' to try and get around it. I think it's working, because boy is it noisy lol

Post by random_savv » Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 6:34 PM UTC