12 Apr
2010
12 Apr
'10
6:40 p.m.
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Rob Kampen wrote:
Gé Weijers wrote: I'd support the above hardware as a minimum - it appears most will be
reading, thus software RAID1
will work just fine - If there are many different files, I'd go for more smaller disks - say 8 by 500G in RAID1, thus the ability to spread the files over more spindles as this may become the bottleneck if all the files are on a single 2T drive.
Using 8 drives is going to significantly increase the cost, because you'd need 8 SATA interfaces and 8 drive bays. Otherwise I agree. A RAID-10 setup (striped mirrors) will probably give the best performance.
Gé