Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:44:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Jonathan Laventhol <jonathan.laventhol@imagination.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008181042510.13990-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200008181745.TAA31494@freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > > Hello Folks -- > > > > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more? > > Not yet :) That's not quite true. We had ~900GB on a NetBSD/Alpha machine at NASA/Ames. > > > Or even 200 Gbyte? > > Yup, 300G's standing here right next to me... > > > I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of > > IDE drives? (How many can you have?) Or SCSI? (Again, > > how many can you have?). > > Take 3 or 4 Promise Ultra66/100's and 14 IBM 75G DTLA 307075 > drives and you should be in business, for a very resonable > pricetag. > You know, I used to say ixnay on that, but, Soren, I've been looking at a lot of the features of the newer ATA drives, and now that they have bad block replacement, I'd have to say that what you're proposing is not unreasonable, although I'd suggest that Vinum/RAID5 be used. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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