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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>,
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Subject: Re: Three Terabyte
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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
> 
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