Re: [CentOS] advice on storage for media storage/streaming server

On 04.11.2012 03:41, Phil Savoie wrote:

Hello,

Hi!

I would like to use centos 6.3 to build a media server with 7 2TB drives and would like suggestions on the storage aspect. This is going to run mediaplex and function only as a media storage/streaming server.

1. If I didn't care about redundancy, would ext4 handle the size of a

raid 0?

Yes, but you'd be pretty close to the 16TB limit RedHat put in. I would use XFS for the big partitions instead.

2. If I did go with the redundancy, what raid level should I use?

Depends. If you care much about the space you can use raid5 or 6 (not sure mdadm supports 6); if you want more reliability go for RAID10.

3. Should I use LVM? Why?

I would, particularly because it allows one to take snapshots.