On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM, John Almberg <jalmb...@identry.com> wrote:
> > If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID >> is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also: >> >> > I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it > occurs to me that my client has a SCSI RAID drive chassis that he is using > stupidly... > > It's a 14 bay drive, and he's currently got seven 32G drives stuck in it, > configured with RAID-0. This is the original 200G drive I was talking about. > It's a few years old. > > Over the next few years, this guy is going to need lots of storage for his > videos. > > After a bit of reading, I'm wondering if the best idea might be to toss out > those 32G drives and replace them with 3 big (say, 300G) drives configured > with RAID-5. It sounds to me like a RAID-5 array can be expanded by adding > new drives. > > QUESTION: is expansion normally a matter of just plugging in a new drive? > Is the new drive automatically grafted onto the old drives? Or do you have > to go through a process like, backing up the data, plugging in the new > drive, reformatting the expanded array of drives, and restoring the data. > > I don't know the brand/model of the RAID drive chassis, but the client > thinks it can be switched to use RAID 5. I'm waiting for the technical > details, but assuming it can handle RAID-5 for now. > > Thanks: John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > Hi: If the Write-performance its not a problem go with 3 drives. If you need a good write performance go at least with 4 -or- use another RAID level. Maybe the RAID Controller allow RAID 5 Grow but im not shure if FreeBSD can handle it. -- mmm, interesante..... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
