From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 28 10:00:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24339 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24328 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA08249; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:59:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:59:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Hallam Oaks cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm In-Reply-To: <199810281034.VAA01075@mail.aussie.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're using the Kingston stuff I have but one bit of advice for you. Do not integrate the drives, enclosures and carriers yourself. Subtle and many are the ways you will shoot yourself in the foot attempting to integrate them yourselves. On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Hallam Oaks wrote: > Thanks for all the advice. At the moment we're looking at a solution > involving Kingston enclosures and hot-swap trays, hooked up to 56 IBM > UltraStore 18.2gb HDD's. We'll be running these off two servers using > double-ended SCSI controllers in much the same way as the tertiary disk > project does. This gives us 1tb in a single rack ; we add new racks each > time we need a new terabyte. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message