Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:05:28 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net> To: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Lots of disks. Message-ID: <20031208140528.GA1001@lewiz.org> Resent-Message-ID: <20031209222853.GA79580@lewiz.org>
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Hi, I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks, providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;). At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add three more 120GB disks and set up RAID5. This is somewhat offtopic (not entirely sure if it is FreeBSD or not) but if I were to put two 120GB disks per channel and buy an ATA controller for my PCI bus and put another disk (or some combination of this sort) would Vinum be able to handle it? Is it even possible to have >4 IDE disks? I know the performance would be terrible but I have considered this and realised it is irrelevant since the box only has a 10Mbit connection (it's for storing large data files (videos, etc.)). Now for the slightly off-topic question -- does anybody know of a good hardware RAID IDE controller than can support 5 devices in RAID5? I'm not sure whether such a thing exists (unless it has a primary, secondary and tertiary??? controller) and I fear it might be beyond my price range but I'd be interested to hear anyway. I know I should really be using SCSI or FC for this kind of stuff but I can't afford to go this way and the performance isn't my bottleneck. Thanks very much, -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |-
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