Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

As mentioned on my previous post, I am moving out of a Dell R210 server to a new hardware with 4x Western Digital 500G Caviar Blue and Intel 320 Series 120G for my own personal research and testing. The four WD disks are configured in RAID10 with mdadm...

I am migrating to another server for my testing and this blog, but before I leave this server I decided to do a simple sysbench fileio test using 60G total file size. Raw information about the server and results can be found here. See the beautiful graph...

We were checking out the mall scene on a Sunday noon after lunch. At one of the local computer store, this picture perfect scene I cannot help myself but take a shot at it. So much for a troubleshooting suggestion!...