On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:17 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/24/12 2:24 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > Anyway, with 18TB of raid 6 might cause performance problems .. raid > > 60 or raid 10 looks much better solution. > > 18TB of raid6 is only 8 3TB drives (6 + 2 parity).... thats not an > unreasonable size for a raid6 set. > > for the 81TB nearline storage boxes I built for a data archive > application, I formatted each box (using a megaraid sas2 9260-8i card > and 36 3TB SAS drives) as 3 x 11 x raid60, plus 3 hot spares, and then > made one big XFS on that. Its working out quite nicely. I think 10 > or 12 disks per raid5 or 6 is a good upper limit. rebuild time from a > single failure was 12 hours, and from a double failure in the same raid > plex, 18 hours. > > > > -- > john r pierce N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca mid-left coast > > Actually in our case we've got 12 2TB drives - but still I think John's point stands. Boris. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos