[CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues
Ruslan Sivak
russ at vshift.com
Sun Jun 22 05:01:41 UTC 2008
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote
>
>> I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems
>> use external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large
>> raid-6. we usually don't make single raid sets much large than 7-8
>> drives, and for a very large storage system, will stripe multiple
>> raid5/6 sets rather than have one huge one.
>
> Would that I had such luxuries. This is a university lab with needs
> for massive amounts of data and not much money with which to do it.
>
Wouldn't striping a bunch of raid6 volumes give you about the same
amount of space?
Russ
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