From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 3:53:21 2003 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 D7E4437B401 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:53:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from manhattan.unsavoury.net (manhattan.unsavoury.net [62.250.7.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4493E43F93 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdv@unsavoury.net) Received: by manhattan.unsavoury.net (Postfix MTA on FreeBSD, from userid 1012) id 4EF4319393; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:53:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manhattan.unsavoury.net (Postfix MTA on FreeBSD) with ESMTP id 4DAA8138AE; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:53:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:53:18 +0100 (CET) From: Maarten de Vries To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Three Terabyte In-Reply-To: <20030320111436.N74106-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> Message-ID: <20030320125035.Y84859@manhattan.unsavoury.net> References: <20030320111436.N74106-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> X-Clue: Wow! You've found the 'show headers' button! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Depends on what access patterns you have; is it mostly dormant > archiving; or lots of access, concurrent, sequential ? How safe does the > data need to be; and against what (hardware failure, accidental rm -rf). This would be for backup. Data on about 50 webservers would be backed up to it on a nightly basis. So performance wouldn't be important. > But check out the 3ware RAID card; I've had great luck with building NFS > servers with 8 or 16 disks as fairly dormant/archival style storage > depots. Thanks, I will. -- Maarten de Vries http://unsavoury.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message