On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:44:24PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Larry Schwerzler put forth on 2/18/2011 2:55 PM: > > > 1. In my research of raid10 I very seldom hear of drive configurations > > with more drives then 4, are there special considerations with having > > an 8 drive raid10 array? I understand that I'll be loosing 2TB of > > space from my current setup, but i'm not too worried about that. > > This is because Linux mdraid is most popular with the hobby crowd, not > business, and most folks in this segment aren't running more than 4 > drives in a RAID 10. For business solutions using embedded Linux and > mdraid, mdraid is typically hidden from the user who isn't going to be > writing posts on the net about mdraid. He calls his vendor for support. > In a nutshell, that's why you see little or no posts about mdraid 10 > arrays larger than 4 drives. well on https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Performance there are several performance reports with 6 or 10 spindles, so there... For an 8 drive Linux MD raid10 maybe you should consider a motherboard with 8 sata ports. Best regards keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
