Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You mean 8.5TB. Believe it or not, > > a) You can buy 1 TB drives off the shelf so you need only 8 or 9 of them > to reach that capacity, and 9 drives is a trivially small number in > serious installations. > b) Hardware RAIDs can be useful in some situations because they > automagically handle certain situations like hot-plugging (including > rebuilding) and reporting (audio-visual signs).
You want this: http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/ 48 hot-swappable disks (though you have to pull the server partly out of the rack to replace a disk, so make sure the mains and network cables have enough play). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
