5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE

[Tomas Quintero]

Ah my mistake, I hadn't read all of what was said in its entirety.

On 4/25/05, Edgar Martinez <emartinez at crockettint.com> wrote:
> Easy answer...the desktops are actually not windows based...they are Apple
> OSX / Linux systems...SMB is just for the transient Windows based systems
> that will need to access the array, but do not run NFS.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Quintero [mailto:tomasq at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:06 PM
> To: emartinez at crockettint.com
> Cc: Brent Wiese; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE
> 
> I am almost a bit curious why you didn't go with a Microsoft based
> solution in a situation like this, where you are needing to provide
> SMB based file sharing to obviously Windows client desktops.
> 
> Another solution would be to setup a dedicated NAS of some sort. But I
> suppose it's too late for all of that.
> 
> On 4/25/05, Edgar Martinez <emartinez at crockettint.com> wrote:
> > No flaming here, when dealing with projects this big, you cannot be bias
> > obviously because generally it is someone else's time and money that is on
> > the line. Thanks for the info, I didn't know the whole second array thing,
> > that would explain some of the weirdness that I have been seeing.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brent Wiese [mailto:brently at bjwcs.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:54 PM
> > To: emartinez at crockettint.com; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE
> >
> > > Any one else think they know of a better method??
> >
> > Well, I'm probably going to get totally flamed for this, but since you
> > asked...
> >
> > The better method is to install Windows 2003 Server. Assemble your drives
> > into 2TB or less RAID5 volumes (btw, you only want 1 per 3Ware card, more
> on
> > that in a second) and use Windows 2003 to span those volumes. It'll show
> up
> > as one drive after that. There is some limit, but I can't remember what it
> > is. Its huge though.
> >
> > And in case you didn't know, 3Ware cards are only speed-optimized for the
> > first array. Subsequent arrays on a card run painfully slow. They won't
> say
> > it in any of their lit, but if you corner their support people, they'll
> > admit it (it obvious if you try it).
> >
> > Sorry to mention M$ here, but it sounds like you invested incredible
> amounts
> > of time, and even Windows 2003 can be cheaper than your time at some
> point.
> >
> >
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