Thread-topic: Xserve RAID: RAID 5 set using more than seven drives?
That's pretty much how I've done it on the very few 14 drive installs I've done. Just curious...
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Wisenbaker [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Fri 10/29/2004 6:48 PM
To: Michael Dhaliwal
Cc: Piers Uso Walter; Ken Carlile; Mac OSX Server
Subject: Re: Xserve RAID: RAID 5 set using more than seven drives?
On Oct 29, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Michael Dhaliwal wrote:
> I would say leave the RAID at 2x7 drive RAID 5. I had to make the
> same decision about a week ago and that's how I left my storage. No
> one I spoke with really suggested 50 as a good idea. Yes, you will
> probably get a performance gain due to the fact that you have a set of
> 14 drives, instead of 7. Its really your choice. Its a matter of
> better performance with the set of 14 drives compared to the safety of
> being able to keep your data online if a controller goes offline and
> keeping one extra layer of complexity off your data set by not
> software striping across controllers.
>
> Do you need more space than one 7 drive bank can give you? I simply
> broke off some data into the second controller, so instead of having
> one bank 90% full, I have one 50% and the other 40%.
This is what we do too. I think you get more flexibility this way. If
you are editing HD video on it then go for the 50, but for data storage
just leave them separate.
7 drives in a Xserve RAID is now 2.8TB!
Josh
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Josh Wisenbaker, ACSA
Sr. Systems Engineer
ComputerTree Technologies
1-800-467-9820
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