It seems Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>
> > It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> > > Hello Folks --
> > >
> > > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
> >
> > Not yet :)
>
> That's not quite true. We had ~900GB on a NetBSD/Alpha machine at NASA/Ames.
Oh, I mean I havn't build one yet :)
> > > Or even 200 Gbyte?
> >
> > Yup, 300G's standing here right next to me...
> >
> > > I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of
> > > IDE drives? (How many can you have?) Or SCSI? (Again,
> > > how many can you have?).
> >
> > Take 3 or 4 Promise Ultra66/100's and 14 IBM 75G DTLA 307075
> > drives and you should be in business, for a very resonable
> > pricetag.
>
> You know, I used to say ixnay on that, but, Soren, I've been looking at a lot
> of the features of the newer ATA drives, and now that they have bad block
> replacement, I'd have to say that what you're proposing is not unreasonable,
> although I'd suggest that Vinum/RAID5 be used.
Nice to hear, and yes vinum is the way to go for redundancy, who is
going to backup THAT amount of data, and on what :)
-Søren
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