Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:52:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: jonathan.laventhol@imagination.co.uk (Jonathan Laventhol), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine Message-ID: <200008181752.TAA33072@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008181042510.13990-100000@zeppo.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Aug 18, 2000 10:44:21 am"
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It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: > 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. Oh, I mean I havn't build one yet :) > > > 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. Nice to hear, and yes vinum is the way to go for redundancy, who is going to backup THAT amount of data, and on what :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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