> > The scary thing about this posting is that Joe was able to construct his
> > 1TB+ filesystem with *ONLY* 37 hard drives.
>
> 37? 38. And you, a programmer! ;-) And that gets you 1.9TB (disk mfr
> counting-wise). I'd have loved to break 2TB but couldn't imagine how to
> handle the required number of scsi busses without botchery. I could get
> 1TB with only 20 drives. These _are_ 50GB drives.
An AMI MegaRAID 1500 will give you sixty devices - four LVD channels. At
50GB a disk, that's ~3TB from a single card. Or you could go the FC
route, but that's probably too expensive to be fun.
> I think you'll
> continue to see a move towards some sort of "storage appliance" for various
> applications, just like the Diablo server is a storage appliance for Usenet
> articles. It's not exactly a filesystem, but it's similar in that it is a
> fit-for-purpose model to do the required task.
IMO, this is where SAN comes into the picture. But I just want Fibre
Fabric working. 8)
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