It's come to Jesus time kids! I'm breaking out the offering collection plate.

[harrison]

Alright kids, we're breaking out the offering plate; it's time to empty the change from your pockets!

GH needs a new hard drive for DB working space.  iMav has dumped a reasonable chunk of change into the forum in this past month, much less his time; unfortunately, the backups are now failing due to the storage space they're being written on.

We can see the effects of this first-hand with the loss of posts and PMs over this weekend.

We can let iMav sort out the donations, but we need to step up and be a part of the growth in a positive way.  Please click the donate button in the header bar, throw in some change, and acknowledge your participation here (without an amount please, no need to turn this into a **** measuring contest).  Every little bit helps,  the $2 you'd spend on your coffee multiplies pretty quickly.

We've had some constructive discussion about how this might be addressed over here: missing posts/threads and postcount



If one of the 'keyboard' mods would like to sticky this for the week, that'd be cool too. (thanks reaper!)

[megnin]

Thanks iMav, for bringing us geehack and keeping it running!

[absyrd]

Thanks iMav, for bringing us geehack and keeping it running!

This!

[keebler64]

Donated, this is a great site that I've only recently discovered, let's keep it going strong!

[Nighted]

More than $1, less than $100. [ Attachment Invalid Or Does Not Exist ] 48682[/ATTACH]

Now please get an SSD with a reliable Marvell controller. Crucial C400 for example.

[alaricljs]

Well, it doesn't HAVE to be Marvell, but I wouldn't shoot for anything Sandforce until there's a controller+firmware that has been through LSI QA/QE.

[i3oilermaker]

Donated :becky:

[AKIMbO]

Donated.

[treble318]

I have just emailed a friend that works at intel, i will see what can be done. If you don't mind do you care to share the funds accumulated so far to see if there is enough cash to execute and purchase this ssd this with discount?

[harrison]

I have just emailed a friend that works at intel, i will see what can be done. If you don't mind do you care to share the funds accumulated so far to see if there is enough cash to execute and purchase this ssd this with discount?

that would need to be taken up with iMav directly.  get a hold of him via the contact button on the header or via PM.

[startacked]

Donated. Great place!

[mkawa]

chipped in

[Typhaeon]

OK, I'll gladly donate, but I have a question.

Given the mid to high volume of posts on the forums, and all the other backend stuff that must be going on, you must be seeing a lot of data accumulate on whatever hard drive your server currently uses.  In other words, a lot of write operations.

Aren't you concerned about SSDs' notable performance degradation over time if the disk is going to be seeing all this traffic?  Won't it fill up pretty quickly, even with wear levelling, since data doesn't really get "deleted" from SSDs?

Of course I could be wrong here, or wary about nothing much in particular, but what sort of storage work does this unit need to be doing?

PS: Don't pay the Intel name-brand premium.  Get one of these; I can vouch for its reliability, having used one a step up for about a year:

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2CCA 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) with Transfer Kit

It's well cheaper, too!

[treble318]

that would need to be taken up with iMav directly.  get a hold of him via the contact button on the header or via PM.

great, i'll pm as soon as I get the pricing.

[net2522]

$$$

[keyboardlover]

Donated.

Question: Are donations tax-deductible?

[alaricljs]

This is not a 501(c)(3), so no.   Nice try tho.  If you want to do the bookkeeping and pay for all the non-profit paperwork I'm sure iMav might consider it

[cmadrid]

Going to toss in.  You might be able to both increase funds and drive some new traffic to the site via a kickstarter funding project or something of that nature.. ever considered?

[cmadrid]

I got a 64gb c4 from Microcenter a while back.. open box discount, great deal.. great ssd!  Night and day for my aging pc

[harrison]

OK, I'll gladly donate, but I have a question.

Given the mid to high volume of posts on the forums, and all the other backend stuff that must be going on, you must be seeing a lot of data accumulate on whatever hard drive your server currently uses.  In other words, a lot of write operations.

Aren't you concerned about SSDs' notable performance degradation over time if the disk is going to be seeing all this traffic?  Won't it fill up pretty quickly, even with wear levelling, since data doesn't really get "deleted" from SSDs?

Of course I could be wrong here, or wary about nothing much in particular, but what sort of storage work does this unit need to be doing?

PS: Don't pay the Intel name-brand premium.  Get one of these; I can vouch for its reliability, having used one a step up for about a year:

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2CCA 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) with Transfer Kit

It's well cheaper, too!

That's all good and true, if we had DB write performance issues, we'd want SAS in RAID, but this is for DB backup working space.

[alaricljs]

Uh, no it's not harrison.  iMav may have not explicitly stated this, but it's for storing the DB in order to make backing up the DB faster.  So it would be primary storage and the HDD would be secondary (used for the backups).

[Djuzuh]

Donated.

[Gawkbasher]

And sorry, Ashort. No rum.  Bought this at the liquor store last week next to my dog groomer.  Cheap compared to the $1500 Knappogue Castle 1951 Irish Whisky which I didn't buy!
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...Flor de Cana 12 & 18 are good enough for me.

[harrison]

Uh, no it's not harrison.  iMav may have not explicitly stated this, but it's for storing the DB in order to make backing up the DB faster.  So it would be primary storage and the HDD would be secondary (used for the backups).

then we need to raise even more  money! hosting the DB on a SSD likely isn't the ideal approach.  I clearly misunderstood what he wrote.  I'll correct the first post, and pick-up the discussion in the suggestions thread.

[mkawa]

yes, we need to invest in an intel enterprise grade ssd with a large amount of extra space to expend on wear leveling

edit: apparently not!

[urbanus]

Donated.

[iMav]

Uh, no it's not harrison.  iMav may have not explicitly stated this, but it's for storing the DB in order to make backing up the DB faster.  So it would be primary storage and the HDD would be secondary (used for the backups).

Actually, this will be step 2 and will accompany, likely, the next OS update.  

I have tons of fast mirrored storage to make snapshots a reality...just need the dedicsted time to reallocate it.  But for now, I am looking for fast, internal storage to WRITE the db backups to.

[DanGWanG]

Donated

[ShakeR]

Donated.

But I'm keeping mine.  Just got them last Friday.
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RAID 0 with (2) 128GB SSD Crucials Pictured.  Just bought a third last week, and have (2) 64s in my other machine.  Not a single problem yet and much cheaper than Intel.  Love these things!!!

Donated

[Nighted]

Crucials in RAID 0 here too.