[ale] Terabyte of data

[Robert L. Harris]

I'm currently using a system that has 16 160G disks in a RAID5.  This 
gives me a bit more than you want of course.  I'm using a 3Ware IDE Raid 
card to provide connectivity but using Software RAID5.  Back when we
built this system the 3ware RAID5 implementation was a disaster for
performance, this may have changed however.

One note, with the 3ware card, the IDE drives are hot swapable if you
get a system with the right type of bays.

I can give you the name of our vendor though personally I'd recomend a
local vendor as ours is in canada and I'm having issues with him.   If
you go with someone local who has questions on design let me know, I'll
give exact specs on the system/chasis we're using.  The only thing I
recomend is a better system for locking down the drives as sometimes the
drives in our system will unseat themselves.....  Also, more fans, these
produce a good bit of heat.  Otherwise we have 8 of these providing ALOT
of disk space for our legato backup server and they're working very well
after a good bit of tuning.

Robert




Thus spake cfowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):

> 
> I'm looking at a situation where I need to create a raid 0 file system that
> equals 1 terabyte of storeage for trival data.  Has anyone done this with
> Linux?  I think the ext2 fs does have a limit that may keep it from going up
> to a terabyte in size.  I'll also have a limit on the file sizes too. 
> 
> Is there an ATA raid card that can do more than 4 drives.  It seems the
> biggest I can get is 200Mb drives.  I'll need at least 5 maybe 6 drives.
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