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Hi again, |
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I am building a fileserver for our studio. The files going to be stored |
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are audio files. Most will be in aiff, wav and mp3 files. |
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I am using a software raid 5 over 15 drives. Using Western Digital |
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drives because the sales man said that they are quieter. |
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My setting for chuck size is 256K. Using ext3 for the filesystem. When |
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creating the filesystem, the setting used was -b 4096 and -E stride=64. |
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**Is the stride setting of 64 correct? |
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We need the noise of the server to be as quite as possible. The speed of |
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the server is not the most important issue. |
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The cpu is Intel Core 2 duo. In the make.conf file the |
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64". I was thinking of using some cpu frequency |
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reducing application when there is no much access to the server. Plus I |
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hope it will save some electricity. |
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**Please advice if that is a good idea. If so which application should I |
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use for the Intel Core 2 Duo running at 1.8. Some applications from the |
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gentoo site are cpudyn, cpufreq, speedfreq and powernowd. Please advice |
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which is most useful for this server. |
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Last but not the least is the spinning down of the hard disk. |
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**Is it a good idea to spin down the hard disk during low use? Will it |
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spoil the hard disk? If it is a good idea, please let me know what is a |
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good application to use. |
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Requesting help to make some decisions on this. Please help where you can. |
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P.V.Anthony |
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