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Well the migration of my data off the 4x 1.5TB stripe onto the 4x 1.5TB RAID 5 is complete. Sadly I had to do this twice as I hit the wrong button and wiped out the copy once it was complete...

I did end up losing maybe 20GB worth of data due to bad sectors. If I had a choice I would send back ALL 8 Sammy Spinpoint Echo Green 1.5TB drives and get Seagates or WD's or anything else. These drives are junk! I've replaced over 50% of the drives thru RMA... I hear horror stories about Samsungs Warrenty returns, so I'm hoping I don't have to deal with it.

The system is now performing an online RAID level migration (thanks to the areca ARC-1260) from RAID level 5 to RAID 6 with a newly added 1.5TB disk. Once complete, I can add another 1.5TB disk and grow the volume to include the additional 1.5TB drives I have on hand.

CoinFX System requirements ( resolves CoinFX application error )

CoinFX System requirements

This resolves CoinFX application error

Windows XP 32bit, 64bit

Windows Vista 32bit, 64bit

Windows 7 32bit, 64bit

Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5

Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 March 2010 22:20 )

Data migration

I've added my new 4x 1.5TB drives, set up a RAID 5 pack, and begun the data migration off the old data stripe.

Estimated migration time is about 33 hours.

I'm moving data off an existing 4 drive stripe (Samsung Spinpoint EchoGreen 1.5TB drives), and platering the data into a new 4 drive RAID 5 volume (Same Sammy drives).

I plan on doing a RAID level migration to RAID 6 once the hard drives are freed up and tested (I had a few hiccups I think on possibly 2 of those drives). Thus I'll have my original wish of an 8 drive RAID 6 volume.

Thank you areca ARC-1260!

To get there I'll first have to free up the stripe volume of 4 1.5TB drives. once I have all the data moved over to my new RAID 5 volume, I can then stress test the old stripe drives.

Once I validate they golden, I'll add 1 to the existing RAID 5 volume, the ARC-1260 supports RAID level migration, allowing me to add the new 5th drive and convert the array from RAID 5 to RAID 6.

Once the data rebuild completes, (yes this is all online, with out losing data) I can then add the remaining 1.5TB drives to the volume with OCE.

OCE is Online Capacity Expansion, another goodie brought to you by the ARC 1260 card. Yeah... it was over $800 but WELL worth it, I've actually debated upgrading the RAM onboard from 256MB to the max 1GB, and adding the battery backup option.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 March 2010 20:17 )

New storage on the way.

In prep for my CPU coming Monday, I decided to order up 4 more 1.5TB Sammy Spinpoint drives. This way I can toss them on the areca RAID card, format them out RAID 5 and migrate my current data set off to them.

Of course theis will then allow me to reallocate the existing 4 1.5TB drives into the areca card, format them RAID 5 and add those to my new "SAN" volume I'll be building on OpenFiler.

Currently my volume set is...

nas - 4x 1.5TB drives configured in a stripe

stor - 2x 500GB drives configured in a stripe

bckup- 1x 80GB drive

The new layout will be....

san - 8x 1.5TB drives in 2 4 drive RAID 5 sets (I would rather RAID 6 all 8, but I don't have enough of a staging space)

stor - TBD for now still 2x 500GB, this data may move over to san

bckup- TBD I'd like to take the 2x500GB's and mirror them to make a new bckup volume for VM and other backups.

WinCache in action

Wincache is a PHP cache module for Windows and IIS 7, I've had it installed for awhile, and I guess I'm decently happy with it. I still need to trim down my image sizes, as this is all hosted on a residental cable connection.

Heres how Wincache performed in a 30minute window.

CoinFX 0.3.6b released

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CoinFX is a small application that runs in the background of your arcade system and plays coin sound effects when you press your coin buttons.

It's configurable, and maintains a log of each players coin counts. You can choose between 3 coin sounds, or load your own personal effects.

Several other options are available in the options menu, CoinFX can also be launched via Command Line to function as a MAME wrapper.

i.e.

CoinFX.exe SF2

A few items have been added in this version, including the ability to stack 2 sound effects in a row, play an mp3 in the background (arcade ambiance), store coin counters in the registry so multiple copies of CoinFX can run from different folders yet still keep track of coin counts.

A bug in 64bit versions of Windows as well as Vista and Windows 7 has been corrected.

See the changelog for a full list of changes.

CoinFX Changelog (www.crackedconsole.com - Palmore)

0.3.6b

Bug fix release
Corrected issue with Spawn MAME being checked and launching CoinFX and passing commands via CLI. This would cause CoinFX to launch 2 versions of MAME(or other emulator).

Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 February 2010 21:25 )

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