Re: Lots of disks.
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? I know the performance > would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is > irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing > large data files (videos, etc.)). Yes - you many also want to look at 3ware their IDE cards (which can handle 4 8 or 16 disks). That is an easy/cheap way to add some IDE disks to your machine. See http://www.ironsystems.com/ and ASA computers for some inspiration and configs. We've used the latter for 'cheap' but low quality storage in the 0.5-2Tb for things like large datafiles. For certain things it can be very effective and under the 5k sort of value. Dw ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Lots of disks.
On Monday, 8 December 2003 at 14:05:28 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks, > providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;). > > At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add > three more 120GB disks and set up RAID5. This is somewhat offtopic (not > entirely sure if it is FreeBSD or not) but if I were to put two 120GB > disks per channel and buy an ATA controller for my PCI bus and put > another disk (or some combination of this sort) would Vinum be able to > handle it? Vinum would have no problem with it. Unless you're using tagged queueing, though, you're going to slow things down by putting more than one disk on an ATA channel. > Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? Yes. > I know the performance would be terrible but I have considered this > and realised it is irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit > connection (it's for storing large data files (videos, etc.)). In that case you shouldn't have too much trouble. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Lots of disks.
Hi, I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks, providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;). At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add three more 120GB disks and set up RAID5. This is somewhat offtopic (not entirely sure if it is FreeBSD or not) but if I were to put two 120GB disks per channel and buy an ATA controller for my PCI bus and put another disk (or some combination of this sort) would Vinum be able to handle it? Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? I know the performance would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing large data files (videos, etc.)). Now for the slightly off-topic question -- does anybody know of a good hardware RAID IDE controller than can support 5 devices in RAID5? I'm not sure whether such a thing exists (unless it has a primary, secondary and tertiary??? controller) and I fear it might be beyond my price range but I'd be interested to hear anyway. I know I should really be using SCSI or FC for this kind of stuff but I can't afford to go this way and the performance isn't my bottleneck. Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
