On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Jonathan wrote: > From a PM with Sascha, to the list: > >>> I am thinking also storage-wise... >>> 4 TB should be plenty, right... >>> I am thinking of 6 x 1.5 TB on Raid 1+0 (both fast and redundant) >> >> This amount of storage is more than enough. > > I phrased the question wrong perhaps. > What is an IDEAL amount of storage for a complete set of tables with a > decent probability? > > 99% or 96% being decent...
The math works out as: 50% failure rate at <3TB Each time you half the failure rate, the storage doubles. 75% = 6TB; ... ; 99% = ~150 TB _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
