Yes it is nice. Admitedly, I only have such a huge amount of space for my /home because I convert all my CD albums to mp3 format. After recording almost 340 albums, I really needed the space.

Just for the record, I do buy these albums, and I am encoding them for the computer I am building for my car.

Personally I think 50 MB is way too much /boot but I guess I just did it for kicks.

200 seems a bit much.

128 should be fine on ram, I went ahead and did a 128 on each drive in case on of them goes down.

I am running ext3 raid mirror so a total loss is not likely.

Also the ups is a great idea, your system should be monitoring it so it can shut down when the batterys get low.

The way mine works is the batteries go low, the system shuts down and then the ups shuts down, when the batteries come back up to about 60% the ups kicks on and the system restarts.

It is great that way when no one is there to turn everything on.

good policy on the ups... but it's catered more for individuals i think...

what about eg. a web server that cannot afford downtime?

your thoughts?

off topic... but how come your mp3's take up so much space? i've about 5000 tracks at 44.1khz / 128kbps in about 25 gigs...

5000 tracks...

the only thing i probably have in excess of 5000 at present is human cells...

Outside of storing all of the albums, he sounds like he is using it actually as a scratch disk. That would account for the need for space just like graphics manipulators need a large scratch disk to work with. I could be wrong, who know but he...

For a www server that must stay up you will have to have it in two seperate locations. That is the only way I can think of, mainly because of the power and also your ISP.

We are not likely to loose power here at work because we have two generators, but the ISP has been known to go down.

At home power loss is subjective to the weather and other factors.

i see...

how often do power failures occur where u live?

(in my country, if u live in a government built apartment, power failures are very rare... i dont know anyone who uses ups at home... only in the offices)

wow

They are pretty common now. the power can suddenly go out and your screwed if your working on something.

I guess if you have the ext3 file system you can get away without it, with ext2 you will be doing some manual fscking for sure.

and it does not always work.

Bluecadet,

I am not sure if you are talking to me or not. Please specify in your posting to whom you are referring to when you are asking a question.

But just in case you are asking me why my mp3's take up such space...

I am encoding at 320 bitrate with 44.1 Khz. Each song seems to take about 10MB each. At around 3000 songs, it adds up to about 36GB of data storage.

If you are wondering why I record so high, it is because I actually do hear a difference between 160 and 320 bitrates.

err.. yes i was talking abuot you miss hacker. I promise i will put my hand up first in future and wait to be allowed to say anything.

I can tell the difference between some mp3's but only really if they've ben done on a crappy encoder, like audiocatalyst, and i only have my tweeters on. I think other than that, you must be a hawk or somethign to tell the difference

I'm not so sure Bluecat. At first I was rather skeptical of her claim as well, and then, while this thread was still progressing, a friend of mine brought his music archive back online. Its a closed machine, and he only accepts music if its a) the whole album, and b) 320 bitrate. So I downloaded a ton of 10-12 Meg Mp3s and then decided to bother and get my soundcard working under linux. It supports 4 speakers and a subwoofer.

Oh my yes there is a difference between 128 and 320 bitrate. I now know, as does my cat that disapeared from the noise, my neighbors, and low-flying planes. That lower bitrate really gets noticeable at the high end.

-cheers,

Finegan

say... what genre of songs do u guys listen to... any of them up for ftp download?

cheers...

Your all saying there is a big difference in 128/160 and 320. I guess I agree because I do think there is a lot of the sound missing at 128 and 160. But personally I think 192 is enough. Do you hear a difference between 192 and 320, or 256 and 320? Maybe it is just my hearing capabilities which won't go beyond that.

And in case you where wondering I was asking bluecadet and shadowhacker. But anyone else who can hear a big difference is welcome to comment too. I really wanna know if I'm missing out on something by only listening to my music at 192.

http://213.105.94.69/mp3