From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 9 14:29:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755DE16A4CF for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:29:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from deluge.umist.ac.uk (deluge.umist.ac.uk [130.88.120.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D67143D29 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:29:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@black.lewiz.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=yellow.lewiz.org) by deluge.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATqLk-0007JE-Ah for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:29:00 +0000 Received: from black.lewiz.org ([192.168.0.12]) by mail.lewiz.org with smtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1ATqNV-000OZ3-9K for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:30:49 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 79592 invoked by uid 4001); Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:28:53 -0000 Resent-From: purple@lewiz.net Resent-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:28:53 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: <20031209222853.GA79580@lewiz.org> Resent-To: FreeBSD-questions Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:05:28 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20031208140528.GA1001@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:30:49 +0000 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Lots of disks. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:29:03 -0000 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 |-