Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card for puter

[Dale]

Wol wrote:
> On 06/11/2021 00:19, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>>
>
>
>>
>> They think we should be connected in a few months.  Cables comes first
>> then they set up the control boxes etc etc.  I'm going with a package
>> that will be about 300 times faster and only cost about $10 a month more
>> than my wimpy DSL.  Oh crap.  I need to expand my hard drive space
>> again.  Glad I use LVM.  LOL  I thought I had another year to deal with
>> that too.
>
> Sounds a bit like me :-) A couple of months back my existing broadband
> deal expired, and they offered me a new deal - FTTP no less - for less
> than I was then paying! (Admittedly ADSL was giving me 17Mb realised ...)
>
> Only problem was a screw-up over the router - the fibre was terminated
> at an RJ45 in my house, but apparently needed a dedicated wan port on
> the router - you can't plug it into a standard port - so I was without
> internet until they sorted out a new router for me.
>>
>> Thoughts on that card?  Work fine?
>>
> Do you really need 1Gbit? I know you've ordered a new card, but I
> would have stuck with the onboard 1Gb, or the old 100Mb card. Or do
> you just want the latest and greatest go-faster kit :-)
>
> Likewise your disk drive. What have you ordered? CMR? If you've got an
> SMR drive be VERY careful moving stuff across, it's quite likely to
> barf under the load. Dunno how easy it is to do, but your best bet is
> to heavily throttle the throughput to give the drive the chance to do
> its housekeeping. Or google for what sort of kernel timeouts you need
> to keep the system from thinking that the drive has failed.
>
> I'd probably boot a rescue disk and just dd the partitions across. At
> least then if it barfs, you haven't lost your original.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>

Well, the connection I'll be getting is either 200Mb/sec or 500Mb/sec. 
It's blazingly fast.  They also offer 1Gb/sec as well but my hard drives
need room to breath.  lol  So, if I leave the 100Mb/sec card in and use
it, it will be the bottleneck for my network.  Right now, the connection
to the puter is the last upgrade I'll need to be ready to surf like
lightening. 

I learned my lesson on SMR a while back.  I googled and made sure it was
a CMR drive before I ordered it.  I had to pass by some SMRs to find a
good deal that was CMR tho.  I don't plan to move data just add the
drive as extra space.  Adding it to LVM should be easy enough.  Sort of
thought about switching to BTFRS (sp?) but just not sure.  LVM is
working well for me at the moment. 

I'm excited about this new internet deal. 

Dale

:-)  :-)