On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:21:50PM +0100, jon+lvm@silicide.dk wrote: > hmm, that would need 130T/0.146T = 890 disks. And running raid 5... Please have a look at the following links. A single HDS Lightning (aka HP XP 1024) can address up to 1,024 disks. http://www.hp.com/products1/storage/products/disk_arrays/highend/xp1024/index.html http://www.hds.com/products/systems/9900v/ > 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). I prefer RAID 1 (or RAID 10), too, but sometimes one has to use RAID 5. A common strategy is to put a higher number of hot spare drives in one system. Another (somewhat newer) strategy is to use two rotating parity drives per RAID set. Stephan
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