From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 02:16:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9356A16A404 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 02:16:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB1413C484 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 02:16:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp68-161.lns3.adl2.internode.on.net [121.44.68.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4D1xIGF086843 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 13 May 2007 11:29:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 11:28:59 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070511125241.O3724@ngaio.unixathome.org> <86646x51i3.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86646x51i3.fsf@dwp.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1577596.4htHdGEIld"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705131129.07782.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Subject: Re: Hardware support X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 02:16:33 -0000 --nextPart1577596.4htHdGEIld Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 13 May 2007 04:10, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > > between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration > > 1U or 2U case > > good reputation > > Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U. I'm not > sure you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at > least 16 data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether. The > most I've ever seen in a 2U case is 8. Hitachi sell 1Tb disks now. (Or at least they advertise them ;) http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/DF2EF568E18716F5862572C= 20067A757/$file/Ultrastar_A7K1000_final_DS.pdf =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1577596.4htHdGEIld Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGRnDr5ZPcIHs/zowRAn3YAJ9CuYB8Y9rYysdVlCvsLGxX+O9aaQCfeyGk H38x62Rhjz2OJbw2EWbeNdY= =kRzg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1577596.4htHdGEIld--