Piers,
You cannot span controllers with the xserve, so yes you are limited to 7
drives. One advantage of RAID 50 is performance.
Thanks,
+R
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Ryan Dionne
System Sorcerer 16800 Greenspoint Park Dr.
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> From: Piers Uso Walter <email@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:52:09 +0200
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Xserve RAID: RAID 5 set using more than seven drives?
>
> I'm looking for ATA/SATA-based RAID systems and find the Apple Xserve
> RAID to be very interesting. One issue I have not yet been able to find
> out is whether it is possible for a RAID 5 set to use more than seven
> drives.
>
> I know that it would be possible to use a RAID 50 configuration using
> software RAID on the server, but this does not look like the optimal
> solution to me. Amongst other reasons because I suspect that this would
> mandate the use of two instead of one hot spare (one for each
> controller). Also I am not sure about how much additional load this
> would put on the server and whether all operating systems come with
> stable software RAID implementations (we want the RAIDs to run at least
> on servers using Linux and Mac OS X Server, possibly in the future on
> Windows and FreeBSD as well).
>
> With kind regards
>
> Piers
>
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> Piers Uso Walter <email@hidden>
> ilink Kommunikationssysteme GmbH
>
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