Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:42:59 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> Cc: Maarten de Vries <mdv@unsavoury.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Three Terabyte Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10303200742410.29709-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030320111436.N74106-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>
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I have a similar need but I need lots of access and concurrent! On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > > Let's say I need 3Tb of cheap storage (preferably IDE disks) and I want it > > controlled by a FreeBSD system; how (if at all possible) would I do set that > > up in terms of hard- and software? > > 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). > > 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. > > Dw > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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