Would "RAID" Data storage system be best for Music download website.?

mixhypnatist · 08-20-2009, 04:19 PM

I was recently informed on this forum, that a "RAID" data storage
system would be best for my online music download website.

If this is correct, what "RAID" system should I utilize,RAID 1, RAID 2,
RAID 6 ?,
I have many hundreds , or even thousands of songs to convert to digital files.What software would be best for this type of music download website?

Does anyone have any reccomendations.?

karamarisan · 08-20-2009, 04:24 PM

I'm guessing you haven't read up on your RAID levels - RAID 2 basically dosen't exist. So, start here.

After you're done, RAID 5 is your best bet (and by RAID 5, I mean any RAID 5-style RAID, which includes RAID 6). It trades write speed for read speed, which is good if most of your disk accesses are reads (as in the case of webserver).

As for converting, which is a separate question, I'd think a shell script would be your best bet. How comfortable are you with that?

mixhypnatist · 08-20-2009, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by karamarisan

I'm guessing you haven't read up on your RAID levels - RAID 2 basically dosen't exist. So, start here.

After you're done, RAID 5 is your best bet (and by RAID 5, I mean any RAID 5-style RAID, which includes RAID 6). It trades write speed for read speed, which is good if most of your disk accesses are reads (as in the case of webserver).

As for converting, which is a separate question, I'd think a shell script would be your best bet. How comfortable are you with that?

Sounds very interesting , I'll have to do some research on this Shell script.Thanks.

karamarisan · 08-20-2009, 05:15 PM

Uh, you may not understand what I meant. I'm not recommending a specific program; I'm suggesting you write or have someone write for you a script that will do the conversion job.

mixhypnatist · 08-20-2009, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by karamarisan

Uh, you may not understand what I meant. I'm not recommending a specific program; I'm suggesting you write or have someone write for you a script that will do the conversion job.

What software would you suggest I use when writing this computer script,
for this "RAID" data storage system.?

karamarisan · 08-20-2009, 08:48 PM

So, you know the command line? That's a program called bash, and what it really is is a script interpreter that happens to have an interactive mode. What I'm talking about is a bash script (shell script) that will automate what you would have done if you were doing all this work manually. Google 'shell scripting' if you want to learn more about this.

chrism01 · 08-21-2009, 12:31 AM

Re shell scripts:

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

mixhypnatist · 08-21-2009, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karamarisan

So, you know the command line? That's a program called bash, and what it really is is a script interpreter that happens to have an interactive mode. What I'm talking about is a bash script (shell script) that will automate what you would have done if you were doing all this work manually. Google 'shell scripting' if you want to learn more about this.

I have purchased a php based html software, would this scripting be compatible with this php based software?.Also this "RAID" data storage.

karamarisan · 08-21-2009, 03:46 PM

In the sense that whatever software you bought can do anything directly with either a RAID setup or transcoding your audio files? I would assume not. They're all totally functionally independent. If you have full control of the server you're running them on, you can implement all of them independently.

With no disrespect intended, I think you may be in a little over your head. First off, do you already have the machine you're running this on? Is it someone else's, or do you physically own the machine? How do you access it?

mixhypnatist · 08-23-2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by karamarisan

In the sense that whatever software you bought can do anything directly with either a RAID setup or transcoding your audio files? I would assume not. They're all totally functionally independent. If you have full control of the server you're running them on, you can implement all of them independently.

With no disrespect intended, I think you may be in a little over your head. First off, do you already have the machine you're running this on? Is it someone else's, or do you physically own the machine? How do you access it?

The server is off site, it is accessed remotely. I am using a web hosting company.What would you recomend?, should I purcahse my own server?.

karamarisan · 08-23-2009, 05:46 PM

Probably not, considering the time it would take to learn enough to get the full benefits of having the physical machine versus the lost benefits of having someone else be responsible for it. You may want to contact your hosting company to ask what they do to protect your site against hardware failure. If you had the machine yourself, you could set up a four-disk RAID 6 that would survive two failures, but they may already have your data stored on a similar setup that they actively back up and monitor for problems.

How do you access it remotely? If you can get in over ssh (and you have admin privileges on it - I can't imagine you don't), you can still run custom software to do the conversion work on it. As above, you'd have to read up on shell scripting and the commands needed to do the actual work - or, you could ask really nicely for someone to write it for you, as it's not super-complicated, or pay someone. Hell, I'd do it. :P

Could you tell me a little more about your conversion needs, too? What exactly do you have and what exactly do you want to have?

mixhypnatist · 08-23-2009, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by karamarisan

Probably not, considering the time it would take to learn enough to get the full benefits of having the physical machine versus the lost benefits of having someone else be responsible for it. You may want to contact your hosting company to ask what they do to protect your site against hardware failure. If you had the machine yourself, you could set up a four-disk RAID 6 that would survive two failures, but they may already have your data stored on a similar setup that they actively back up and monitor for problems.

How do you access it remotely? If you can get in over ssh (and you have admin privileges on it - I can't imagine you don't), you can still run custom software to do the conversion work on it. As above, you'd have to read up on shell scripting and the commands needed to do the actual work - or, you could ask really nicely for someone to write it for you, as it's not super-complicated, or pay someone. Hell, I'd do it. :P

Could you tell me a little more about your conversion needs, too? What exactly do you have and what exactly do you want to have?

Right now I am running a php software named "easybemusic shop 1-2-3,
You can read up on them at their website www.easybemusicshop.com or
just google easybemsuicshop123. I was told by many programmers that it
is to complicated for them to work with.

As I said, I will be uploading many thousands of music files, for my
music download website.-->www.discomixdownload.com . Web host is www.fastdomain.com , I called and spoke to one of the tech support people,
and he informed me that they have RAID mirrored type disk storage capability.

What I need is additional "RAID" type data storage capacity, and functionality. The web host has the capability for me to "upload this shell
scripting software" that you speek of.They have the FTP, upload options
that can be accessed from the "cp" ,"control panel" at the web hosting site
were they allow you to build the website. What would you recomend, and how
much would all of this cost me, for you to write this shell scripting, to
give me this RAID, functionality?

Also, the programmer that is currently working on my site, says there is
problem with the shopping basket part of the website.