Hello,
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?
2. If I did go with the redundancy, what raid level should I use?
3. Should I use LVM? Why?
Thank you in advance for your thoughts on this.
Phil
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Should I use LVM? Why?
I would, particularly because it allows one to take snapshots.
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Nux! -
Phil Savoie