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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:53:18 +0100 (CET)
From:      Maarten de Vries <mdv@unsavoury.net>
To:        Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Three Terabyte
Message-ID:  <20030320125035.Y84859@manhattan.unsavoury.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030320111436.N74106-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>
References:  <20030320111436.N74106-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>

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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/

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