hi ritz
yeah....some people like hot spares....
some people like raid5 vs raid0/1 etc...
i tend not to care about hot swap....cause if the disk has to be
swapped out...might as well shut the box down and do other maintenance
tooo ( replace fans ?? check cpu temp ??? etc...
- see what cause the disk to fail....how it failed etc
we have a 1U chassis...standard depth ( 25" ) that can handle
8 drives.... w/ mb and all the goodies....
a smaller chassis ( 23" deep ) supports 6 drives...
-- using standard ide disks or scsi3 disks
8 drive * 80Gb each is a ton of storage....well past the reasonable limits
of ext2 ...so was wondering about current status for reiserfs and jfs
etc... and in production use or lab use...
have fun raiding...
alvin
http://www.linux-1u.net
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, ritz wrote:
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 22 12:09:44 2000
> >
> > Alvin Oga wrote:
> > >
> > > anybody out there building 500Gb raid5 boxes in 1U chassis ???
> >
> > That'd be quite a trick. You'd need 6 100 GB hard disks or 8 73 GB hard
> > disks to pull that off. Just getting all those disks into a 1 U chassis
> > along with a power supply, motherboard, cooling fans, disk controller,
> > cabling and who knows what else would be very sketchy. You could do it
> > as an external RAID box connected to the CPU in another 1 U box, but
> > everything in 1 U is probably all but impossible at the moment.
>
> The best I've been able to accomplish in 1U is 160gb RAID 5 or
> 80gb RAID 1 with a hot spare. That's with 80gb Maxtor IDE drives
> and 3WARE IDE RAID cards.
>
> I imagine that I could double this in a 2U enclosure. If someone
> wanted to stash a LOT of storage in a small space, I imagine the
> best way to do it would involve creating a custom chassis with a
> LOT of PCMCIA slots and just stash tons of the highest density
> PCMCIA hard drives you can find into it. 8-)
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