I have a project to construct a playout system for someone who has in excess of 40,000 tracks of audio.
There is a good reason for a library of this size given the application [which is not your regular radio station] My problem is storage on /var/snd I can source 2TB drives and from my experience we can get around 20,000 tracks on 1 TB so 2 TB will be 40,000 but with NO headroom. [I like headroom 15% is good] This client is likely to want to add a whole lot more to the library, so adding a second 2Tb makes sense. What, in your opinion, is the best method of combining the drives to produce a big /var/snd I have seen various debates on arrays, and quite frankly, I am confused. Don't have a problem running the OS on a third smaller drive. We have discussed this and if the limit is the limit then that's what we have to work to. There may be 3 Tb drives now but my supplier does not list them, and I gather there is a supply problem with drives at the minute. Robert Jeffares Big Valley Radio Thames New Zealand _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
