Dark0ne Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 The Seattle and Dallas file servers will be taken down in-turn over the next couple of days while the hard drives are re-jiggled (that's the technical term for it) to double the capacity on the servers. In non-technical terms the RAID on the servers is just being changed from RAID 1 to RAID 0. Redundancy is already provided by the five file servers the sites have so best to make use of all available space. The final 10% of the file server space was taken up quicker than I expected by New Vegas Nexus. 7,000 downloadable files and counting already, so the sooner this gets done the better. The Dallas server is off-line right now as all the files get restored from the Seattle server. Tomorrow the process will be reversed. If anyone wants to do the time math it's about 540GB of files downloading at 10 MegaBytes (not megabits) a second. Roughly about a day or so. In the mean-time the UK and Washington servers will be operational throughout, as will the two Premium Member servers. Thanks for your patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukeman Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Good to know. Thanks for info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pushkatu Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 You never get tired. GG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delusibeta Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Cheers for the heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myt01 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 commence jigglin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterchief47 Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 I hope the Site has a backup of the files (i'm sure they do), what you gain in speed and capacity from switching from RAID 1 to 0, you lose in safety. (If anyone already knows this, just ignore it. Just thought I'd throw in my $0.02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladydesire Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 masterchief47: Dark0ne already said that the fact there are 5 files servers is the reason he's changing the RAID configuration on two servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTR3M368 Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Is all of this the reason I have been getting unusual amounts of timeouts and mysqrl messages lately? If so, I will be stoked when it gets back to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychophat Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 (edited) So that's why I saw pages not loading and files not being able to be accessed a couple of weeks ago, I thought it was my connection acting up. Good to know that all is good now and working fine again. Edited December 1, 2010 by psychophat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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