Bent Terp wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com wrote:
some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB. Any recommendations as far as hardware?
I'm kind of partial to Areca raid controllers, you can get up to 24 ports, so that can be as much as 20 TB (that's real world terabytes, not hardware manufacturer's) in a raid 6 with hot-spare using 1000 GB drives.
I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case.
http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-failures-areca-is-not-so.h...
Any comments? With 3ware lately not looking so good from comments I have heard on the list over the past few years performance wise, I wonder how Adaptec and Areca look now?