On 12/23/2010 08:18 AM, Andrew Hume wrote: > we (some folks at work) have built two backblaze boxes > (roughly speaking, a linux box with 45 2TB drives). > > i think i know how to deploy such a beast, but wanted to check > my understanding, which is that mdadm is the tool of choice, > and that for performance and reliability, raid10 is the sweet spot > (specificly, not RAID5). > > does anyone have anything specific to say about mdadm, > and the raid it produces, either good or bad? > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
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