Our office averages around 1.5MB / mailbox, call it 10MB for rounding. 6,000 x 10MB = 60GB (n'est pas?)
2 x 250GB drives, mirrored, should cover that and the system quite nicely. regards, Drew Disclaimer: Most of our employees are programmers so probably don't have any friends to call and leave messages! :-) Steve Totaro wrote: > RAID arguments (preference really) aside, 4k - 6k worth of student > voicemails is going to require quite a bit of storage space. > > Thanks, > Steve Totaro > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Drew Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Having ventured high enough and far enough to view the curvature of the >> Earth and having stayed up late enough long enough (why do disks only >> fail at the weekend?) to rebuild and restore RAID 5 sets, I proffer the >> following (not so) Humble Opinion ..... >> >> Dual power supplies, two thumbs up >> >> but RAID 5 is only good for reducing storage costs on large volumes of >> data. It reduces performance and reliability over RAID 1. Don't put the >> OS on RAID 5 unless you like rebuilding servers from bare metal. It's >> much easier to rebuild and restore the data on RAID 5 sets if the OS is >> already up and running. >> >> Your OS and other system critical files (Asterisk) should be on RAID 1 >> for performance, redundancy and cost reasons. >> >> More disks = higher cost and higher chance of failure. >> >> Asterisk in general does not need much disk storage. The minimum drive >> size available in a new server tends to be overkill. Two drives as RAID >> 1 gives you redundancy and performance. Adding a third drive for RAID 5 >> adds cost, increases complexity and reduces reliability just to add >> storage capacity that you don't really need. (but the reseller WILL make >> more money and impress you with their command of the big words and >> acronyms on the spec sheet.) >> >> If and only if you need to store many hundreds of gigs of data (eg. >> recording a very large volume of calls) then RAID 5 becomes useful (or >> RAID 10 or RAID n). You should add this "bulk storage" IN ADDITION TO >> the mirrored pair holding the OS. >> >> regards, >> >> Drew >> >> >> >> >> Steve Totaro wrote: >> > And I can post a link that shows a bunch of guys think the earth is >> > flat with a 5/10 google ranking also (like the barf guys). >> > http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm >> > >> > I usually just call my guy at CDW and give him my needs, he is a >> > former techie gone sales. He puts together a quote and emails it to >> > me for approval. >> > >> > I find HP server are very robust and rock solid at a decent price >> > point (IBM as well). I like the 380 because you get six hot swap scsi >> > bays and redundant power supplies in a 2u profile, also, Digium and >> > Sangoma T1 cards have never given me an issue. >> > >> > Many on this list love Supermicro, I have yet to try them but I will >> > in the near future. I have not heard a single complaint, only rave >> > reviews. >> > >> > I guess my original point was going for redundancy as far as storage >> > and power supplies with your dollar, not the fastest proc or maxed out >> > RAM that will not be needed. Regardless of the actual hardware or >> > RAID setup, that is the angle I suggest you take. 4k - 6k students >> > will require quite a bit of storage. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Steve Totaro >> > >> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Ron Joffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> On Tuesday 18 March 2008 22:12, Steve Totaro wrote: >> >> > For your use, I would go for a RAID 5 >> >> >> >> I would highly recommend against a raid 5 set. I can give you more >> details if >> >> you are interested, but these guys have most if it down : www.baarf.com >> see >> >> the link on the left on "why should I not use Raid 5" >> >> >> >> Ron >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> >> >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> > >> > asterisk-users mailing list >> > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > >> >> >> -- >> Drew Gibson >> >> Systems Administrator >> OANDA Corporation >> www.oanda.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- Drew Gibson Systems Administrator OANDA Corporation www.oanda.com _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
