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. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro