Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:36:25 CEST | From | Andrea Ferraris <> | Subject | Re: 2T for i386 OT |
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Sorry for the OT,
but I'm really interested on the subject.
>>>You might be able to do that with hardware IDE raid controllers and >>> the like such as the 3ware 8 port cards, or scsi raid controllers and then run >>> ext3 or reiserfs. > > > > If you're building a 2TB array, you're not gonna do it with bloody IDE > > hardware. (I hope you're joking.) > > I used to think that. Im planning on deploying a 1Tb IDE raid using 3ware > kit for an ftp site very soon. Its very cheap and its very fast. UDMA with > one disk per channel and the controller doing some of the work. > > All it lacks is hot swap.
I also planned a thing like that for some more modest servers (only some ten GB), the question is with wich filesystem? For my needs I think that also ext2 can do the job, but I'm looking for advice for something better and at now I don't think that ext3 could be the answer.
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