erik quanstrom wrote:
with a 1 machine solution, i don't need any more disks to have a full mirror and i have the option of raid5 which will reduce the number of disks i need to 10TB + 1 disk. since your model is that the storage is a significant expense, a single raid5 machine would make more sense.
Reliance on striping for redundancy frightens a number of us perhaps uninformed folks. It just seems like too much could go wrong with such a complex scheme. We sleep better knowing there's a mirrored drive in another location.
As for cost, we just imagine it's 2003, a gigabyte costs five bucks, but our astute purchasing skills got storage for less than a tenth of that...
