Hello all. I wanted to revive this thread to relay this bit of news about hard
drive warranties. Its not a new story (Dec 2011), and lots of you are already
painfully aware of it, but others just starting to build out a system may not
have seen it and this might alter some purchase decisions:
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Hi All,
We run a couple to 18 TB File Servers using 8 x 3TB drives in a RAID6 array
(no LVM). We use the 5400 RPM Hitachi Deskstar drives and get great
performance, life, and power usage. We chose these drives based off a
recommendation and the data collected here:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/0
I have 2 drive of 3 TB [HITACHI DESKSTAR] each one in Mirror Raid; using a
[HighPoint RocketRAID 620] controller; this is SATA v3.0 at 6GB/s.
Now when you use more than 2.5 TB Drives this work with a new way to manage
partition called GPT [Guided Partition Table] unsupported on major versions
of L
You normally find server drives when you look into SAS or the high rpm
SATA drives (either 7.2k 2.5" or 10k+ 3.5"). Look up dell, hp, ibm drives
and then die a little when you see the price. To be honest a lot of the
enterprise SATA drives are the same as the consumer grade you're paying
I have seen Seagate and perhaps WD market them as "Enterprise" drives,
with a comparatively higher price. I have also seen "AV" drives, i think
those were WD, designed for Security systems and similar devices. I
assume they are the same, higher grade of drive.
Nathaniel C. Steele
Assistant Chie
From: "Bill Putney" :
>>>We've chosen not to use the very large consumer drives and stuck with
>>>slightly smaller (750 GB) server quality drives.<<<
--- In a world where one can almost get 2TB drives as a prize in one's Happy
Meal, how does one look for, shop for, or even find a "Server Quality
Hello,
Here, at our student radio station, we use LVM. Each physical volume is
a double RAID 1 array of disks. So LVM makes it a JBOD. We can expand it
anytime on the fly if we hot add disks in our bay, which hosts several
SATA controllers, some of them are currently unused, but ready to accept
ne
On Monday 12 December 2011 07:16:16 pm James Harrison wrote:
> For a simpler solution I'd go RAID 10 - 4 2TB disks, gets you redundancy
> and striping for a total of 4TB, which should be plenty. If you need to
> upgrade, you can add another pair of disks.
That's the route I'd go. ( off hand )
Si
On Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS.
Bill
On 12/12/11 4:09 PM, Larry Owen wrote:
Are you running zfs on linux or a nas?
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Bill Putney wrote:
Robert,
We're using a ZFS file system here. We've chosen not to use the very
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ZFS is lovely, but a bit of a pain to configure, and effectively
unsupported on Linux - so you need FreeBSD for your fileserver. Which
may be a degree of complexity too far. LVM is not as fantastic, but also
very simple.
For a simpler solution I'd g
Are you running zfs on linux or a nas?
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Bill Putney wrote:
Robert,
We're using a ZFS file system here. We've chosen not to use the very
large consumer drives and stuck with slightly smaller (750 GB) server
quality drives.
Robert,
We're using a ZFS file system here. We've chosen not to use the very
large consumer drives and stuck with slightly smaller (750 GB) server
quality drives. ZFS allows for very large file systems and flexible
expansion even with drives of dissimilar geometries later. ZFS doesn't
use hard
Alban,
Compare and contrast if you would please, LVM vs. ZFS...
Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend, WA
On 12/12/11 3:01 PM, Alban Peignier wrote:
> On Mon 12 Dec 2011 11:53:28 PM CET, Robert Jeffares wrote:
>
>> This client is likely to want to add a whole lot more to the library, so
>> adding a s
On Mon 12 Dec 2011 11:53:28 PM CET, Robert Jeffares wrote:
> This client is likely to want to add a whole lot more to the library, so
> adding a second 2Tb makes sense.
>
> What, in your opinion, is the best method of combining the drives to
> produce a big /var/snd
Hi Robert,
No storage solut
I have a project to construct a playout system for someone who has in
excess of 40,000 tracks of audio.
There is a good reason for a library of this size given the application
[which is not your regular radio station]
My problem is storage on /var/snd
I can source 2TB drives and from my experi
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