Raven

Raven is a desktop computer.

History

Fall 2010 upgrade with RevoDrive 120GB SSD and 2TB Caviar Black Fall 2009 upgrade with Patriot 32GB SSD Spring 2009 - initial build

Hardware

• Shuttle SX48P2 Deluxe case and motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz
• 8GB DDR3 1066 memory
• Patriot "Warp V2" 32 GB SSD, SATA I/II, 2.5" s/n MK050943085B30039
• Western Digital Raptor 10K RPM SATA, WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U0, s/n WD-WXLY08084357

The case includes a fingerprint scanner and a wifi card, neither of which I have ever used.

Software

It is currently running 10.10 Ubuntu.
I often use it to run VirtualBox so that I can use ESRI ArcGIS.

Drive configuration

See also SSD optimizations

RevoDrive is at /dev/sda and /dev/sdb

/dev/md0 is the / partition
/dev/md1 will be a RAW partition for a virtual machine.

/dev/sdc (Caviar Black)
1 spare /boot
2 spare /
ext
5 swap
6 /home

/dev/sdd (Velociraptor 300GB)
1 /boot (cant boot directly to revodrive)
5 swap
6 spare /
7 /spare

root@raven:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 22973 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 5103 * 512 = 2612736 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd1ef8767

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       14999    38269917   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2           15000       22973    20345661   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 22973 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 5103 * 512 = 2612736 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7877c50a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       14999    38269917   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2           15000       22973    20345661   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xabb5e669

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1          26      207820+  83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc2              26        4203    33551752+  83  Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc3            4203      243201  1919751435+   5  Extended
/dev/sdc5            4204        6293    16786901   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc6            6294      243201  1902962486+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdd: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00017b2c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1   *           1          61      487424   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd2              61       36482   292546561    5  Extended
/dev/sdd5              61        2007    15624192   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdd6            2007        2614     4881408   83  Linux
/dev/sdd7            2615       36482   272038912   83  Linux

Disk /dev/md0: 78.4 GB, 78376599552 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 19134912 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 131072 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/md1: 41.7 GB, 41667657728 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 10172768 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 65536 bytes / 131072 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000