From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 9 17:17:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7E216A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:17:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A8943D13 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92562BD0F for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:16:57 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 92414511F9; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:46:54 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:46:54 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Lewis Thompson Message-ID: <20031210011654.GG199@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20031208140528.GA1001@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aPOcx+xoD6gZZHnz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031208140528.GA1001@lewiz.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Lots of disks. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:17:01 -0000 --aPOcx+xoD6gZZHnz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 8 December 2003 at 14:05:28 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks, > providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;). > > At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add > three more 120GB disks and set up RAID5. This is somewhat offtopic (not > entirely sure if it is FreeBSD or not) but if I were to put two 120GB > disks per channel and buy an ATA controller for my PCI bus and put > another disk (or some combination of this sort) would Vinum be able to > handle it? Vinum would have no problem with it. Unless you're using tagged queueing, though, you're going to slow things down by putting more than one disk on an ATA channel. > Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? Yes. > I know the performance would be terrible but I have considered this > and realised it is irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit > connection (it's for storing large data files (videos, etc.)). In that case you shouldn't have too much trouble. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --aPOcx+xoD6gZZHnz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/1nQGIubykFB6QiMRAh88AJ9ne/QFoJxnKis9eGdSaRX8oDITtgCeKzUj O5fHJ51lKYRCgOMzUk4DKM8= =wMFV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aPOcx+xoD6gZZHnz--