Online Capacity Expansion, RAID, Etc.

2005-05-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Me again, I was looking mainly for more advanced info, like stripe sizing, not debating whether software RAID is better then a Hardware RAID, How slow RAID 5 is, or how to waste 1TB of may storage space switching the array to RAID 1 or 10 so I can get a speed boost, even though the LAN is the

Re: Online Capacity Expansion, RAID, Etc.

2005-05-30 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 29, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: to be starting the array in a RAID 1 config using 2 drives, I will then migrate, and grow, the array to RAID 5 using the ORLM and OCE features of the board when more space is required. FreeBSD, RELENG_5_4, will N

Re: Online Capacity Expansion, RAID, Etc.

2005-05-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
Wojciech Puchar wrote: to be starting the array in a RAID 1 config using 2 drives, I will then migrate, and grow, the array to RAID 5 using the ORLM and OCE features of the board when more space is required. FreeBSD, RELENG_5_4, will NOT be install on this array, it will be on a separate RAID

Online Capacity Expansion, RAID, Etc.

2005-05-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all, I'm going to be purchasing a HighPoint RocketRAID 2220 (SATA II) to build a 1.7TB RAID 5 array but I have some relatively simple questions... I'm going to be starting the array in a RAID 1 config using 2 drives, I will then migrate, and grow, the array to RAID 5 using the ORLM and