On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:28:20 +1100, Neil Brown
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[ ... what to do with 48 drive Sun Thumpers ... ]
neilb I wouldn't create a raid5 or raid6 on all 48 devices.
neilb RAID5 only survives a single device failure and with that
neilb many devices, the chance of a second
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:00:39 -0500, Brad Langhorst
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[ ... VMware virtual disks over RAID ... ]
brad - 4 disk raid 10
brad - 64k stripe size
Stripe size or chunk size? Try reducing the chunk size if that
is the chunk size, and applications in the VM do short reads or
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:12:30 -0500, Norman Elton
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normelton Assuming we go with Guy's layout of 8 arrays of 6
normelton drives (picking one from each controller),
Guy Watkins proposed another one too:
«Assuming the 6 controllers are equal, I would make 3 16
