2011/2/18 Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > While I have considered getting a new case that can hold 8 drives + system drive + cd rom I always had trouble finding them. There are no doubt better setups then mine, but Im trying to not buy new hardware if I can get away with it. > 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
