From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 11:09:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DE5106566C for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B9A18FC20 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPETn-0007hD-As for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:09:11 +0000 Received: from mta-mad.optenet.com ([213.27.232.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:09:11 +0000 Received: from matiassurdi by mta-mad.optenet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:09:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matias Surdi Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:09:02 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mta-mad.optenet.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: Large raid arrays X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:09:12 -0000 Matias Surdi escribió: > Hi, > > I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. > > For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 > logical device. > > What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? > > > Thanks a lot for your suggestions. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Some comments that may help in the decision: - Reliability/resistance to power failures are the most important factor. - It doesn't require high performance or high speed. Thanks a lot.