On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:54 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote:
> each with several disks having large capacity, totaling 10 - 12 TB. Is > this (another) bad idea? > > Yes. Very bad. > If you had 6TB on average system with spinning disks you would measure > duration of repairs and compactions in days. > > If you want to store 12 TB of data you will need more machines. > > Would it help if I partitioned the computing resources of my physical machines into VMs? For example, I put four VMs on each of three virtual machines, each with a dedicated 2TB drive. I can now have four tokens in the ring and a RF of 3. And of course, I can arrange them into a way that makes the most sense. Is this getting any better, or am I missing the point? Casey
