From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 14:08:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEE3106564A for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:08:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordi@msdi.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA148FC1B for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:08:24 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Received: from server2.msdi.local ([96.20.178.197]) by VL-MR-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KZO00G4BSEHTPC0@VL-MR-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:03:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:03:53 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Message-id: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-topic: 12 TB Disk In freebsd AMD 64 ? Thread-index: AcrJyICxr8uVRu5uQ7Kv5V0GUbOQRQ== From: Ian Lord To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: 12 TB Disk In freebsd AMD 64 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:08:25 -0000 Hi, =20 I am planning to build a 12x 1TB array RAID 6 on a hardware = controller... I will use it as a nfs server for archiving files (we need = to keep legal files for 6 years)... =20 Raid 6 will give me a 10 TB drive approx... =20 Reading these pages: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html = =20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.ht= ml = =20 I kinda understand freebsd is not well suited for that. I can read = between the lines that we shouldn't go over 2TB. Is this information = still exact or outdated ? =20 I'm pretty sure I won't be able to boot on that megadrive so I planned = on having 2 smaller disk on raid 1, but I want to make sure the big disk = will work and will be reliable. =20 Could someone comment please ? =20 Thanks in advance =20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 143 Rue des Fauvettes St-Colomban (Qu=E9bec) J5K 0E2 T=E9l: (514) 776-MSDI -> (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI -> 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca =20 =20