Hi! I'm building a new server for video storage (editing). Due size, power and financial limitations I'm thinking about server that has OpenSUSE installed on CF card and data installed on one 1.5Tb Seagate, which is rsynced to another. So, not mirrored by RAID, but rather "manually synced every night to provide 1 day backups". But I want the system to be running all the time but at the same time consume as little power as possible. Therefore I'm thinking about installing the system on 4Gb CF. So, now the questions: What should I know about installing the system partitions on a CF card? Should I put swap there also? If not, why not? Will the CF card wear down? Should I invest in faster CF cards? The system will probably have 2Gb memory. Also, does OpenSUSE 11.1 spin down the 1.5Tb data hard drives when they are not in use? Or can it be easily configured to do so? The previous system has RAID-5 with 500Gb disks and that RAID doesn't seem to spin down ever. I'm thinking of having the system and swap on the CF card so that if nobody is using the data in this server, the disks could spin down and the whole system should not consume much energy. I'm also investigating in using Intel Atom 330 for this server. Would there be any problems with that? Unfortunately though, it seems that is not yet possible with the motherboard available. -- HG. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org