For sanity-sake, most systems have a split backplane 2x4 (Check the Dell
PowerEdge 2950 for example) with a RAID-1 root for the system (36gig 15k
RPM etc.) and then a 4x150 or whatever RAID5/RAID10 for the
"Application" data.
This creates some abstraction and aids in emergency situations.
~BAS
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:39:52 +0100
"Dominic Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At this point I'm assuming my only option is a separate small HD for the OS
> which can be partitioned using bsdlabel. Ideally I would rather not do this
> however as the server cases only have 16 drive bays so I'll h
I am looking to deploy some new fileservers shortly running on either
RELENG_6_2 or RELENG_6, these servers will have 16x500GB SATA drives running
on a 3ware 9650 raid controller.
Ideally I would like this to be configured as a single large RAID5 or RAID6
array, however this leaves me problems wit