You might have a look at one man's experience with a Terabyte configuration
of 16 IDE drives at http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.html.
David Christensen
>I'm working on an 18-disk raid system, but I've heard a couple
>responses implying that larger sized arrays do not work well with
>software raid. I still don't see why. As long as there is no bottleneck
>in the system it seems that things should work quite nicely.
>
>Out of curiosity, what is the largest/fastest system that has been
>built using software raid?
>
>Andy
>
>> Each of the 39160's has two Ultra-160 channels. Bearing in mind that the
>> fastest SCSI disks could sustain about 40 MB/s, you can hang four disks
>> off each channel without making the bandwidth a limiting factor. If you
>> want to put more than eight disks onto your array, then you will need two
>> 39160's of course - I just thought I'd mention it as very few people want
>> >8 disk arrays...
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