Best way to create a large data space
stan
stanb at panix.com
Fri Jul 14 00:24:12 UTC 2006
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:20:56PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Thursday 13 July 2006 08:34, stan wrote:
> > i have a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 500F SATA drives. I plan on using this
> > machine primarily for a large data storage requirement.
> >
> > What I want is one large /data partition. Given all the choices for doing
> > this in FreeBSD (software) what's the "best" choice here? The partio will
> > be shared via SAMBA if that affects the thhinking here.
>
> "Best" really depends on what your needs and goals are. Here's a quick
> overview of what the choices ARE, based mostly on memory. Corrections and
> additions welcome. I'll try to make some notes about pros and cons as well.
>
Thanks for the nice summary.
The data will be backed up nightly, so I'll probably use gstirpe to get the maximum capicty.
RAID5 would not work very well with 3 x 500G (asuuming that I can't use the 500G that I put the
system on).
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