On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:45:51PM +0100, Stephan Austermuehle wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:05:32PM +0100, Anders Widman wrote: > > > Hm, sounds like lots. :) What kind of devices will you be running > > with. Even with 300GB drives you will need 300-400 of them to get > > 100TB. > > A single HP XP 1024 (which is an OEM product of a HDS Lightning) stores > 130 TB with a 7p1 RAID5 configuration and 146 GB disks. hmm, that would need 130T/0.146T = 890 disks. And running raid 5... personaly i dont like raid5, because if you loose more than one disk your data are gone, and with this ammount of disks, i expect failure rather often. (it's proberly not one big raid5 array, but that just makes it need more disks). JonB _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
