Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:46:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: Hallam Oaks <mlnn4@oaks.com.au>, "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810291144360.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <19981029102854.A27512@Denninger.Net>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > I love the CMD RAID controllers. They do have nice features yes, but David Greenman posted a bit about their limited number of tags (64). Unless CMD has fixed this, these arrays would be fairly useless in a performance system. Granted, they are priced right and if you don't mind not being able to max out your drives, go for it. With fewer tags supported, I'd have no problems putting more drives on each chain, which would make them an even higher density solution. > There is a local shop here in Chicagoland, CompuElectronics, which can do > integration and build-up for you on basically anything. > > They're not the cheapest, but they do good work, and I've been extremely > happy with them in the past. > > Call 847-679-2667, ask for Rom. > > They have available some mongo-huge array cases with redundant power and > incredible numbers of bays (20+) for this kind of job. That kind of thing > is not cheap, but it can be done. > > -- > -- | 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
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