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From: Francisco Olarte Sanz <folarte@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] RAID
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:00:23
Message-Id: 200602020858.01066.folarte@peoplecall.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] RAID by Ramon van Alteren
1 Hi, this may be a little off topic but I would like know:
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3 On Wednesday 01 February 2006 09:47, Ramon van Alteren wrote:
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5 ...
6 > I'm currently building a 24 disk RAID array. If neccesary I could set
7 > it up to allow for 8 disk-failures without losing any data and
8 > without sacrificing half my storage capacity.
9 > In this case I'm optimizing for performance and storage with some
10 > redundancy, giving me a 9Tb storage capacity with a 4 drive failure
11 > redundancy.
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14 I'm really impressed, even with 500 Gb disks 9 teras is 18 of them, how do you
15 manage to withstand 4 drive failures? And how do you configure the 24 disks
16 to allow 8 disk failures sacrificing only half capacity? I can think of some
17 schemes, but they seem pretty slow to me.
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19 Francisco Olarte Sanz.
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