12 TB Disk In freebsd AMD 64 ?

[Ian Lord]

Hi,

 

I am planning to build a 12x 1TB array RAID 6 on a hardware controller... I will use it as a nfs server for archiving files (we need to keep legal files for 6 years)...

 

Raid 6 will give me a 10 TB drive approx...

 

Reading these pages:

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html <http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html> 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html> 

I kinda understand freebsd is not well suited for that. I can read between the lines that we shouldn't go over 2TB. Is this information still exact or outdated ?

 

I'm pretty sure I won't be able to boot on that megadrive so I planned on having 2 smaller disk on raid 1, but I want to make sure the big disk will work and will be reliable.

 

Could someone comment please ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

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Ian Lord

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