large disk > 8 TB

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> writes:
> You mean 8.5TB. Believe it or not,
>
> a) You can buy 1 TB drives off the shelf so you need only 8 or 9 of them
> to reach that capacity, and 9 drives is a trivially small number in
> serious installations.
> b) Hardware RAIDs can be useful in some situations because they
> automagically handle certain situations like hot-plugging (including
> rebuilding) and reporting (audio-visual signs).

You want this:

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/

48 hot-swappable disks (though you have to pull the server partly out of
the rack to replace a disk, so make sure the mains and network cables
have enough play).

DES
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