<html><head></head><body>Just for kicks, I did some googling on large scale data. These looked interesting.<br>
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<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/the-big-disk-drive-in-the-sky-how-the-giants-of-the-web-store-big-data">http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/the-big-disk-drive-in-the-sky-how-the-giants-of-the-web-store-big-data</a>/<br>
<a href="http://highscalability.com/google-architecture">http://highscalability.com/google-architecture</a>/<br>
<a href="http://datasafestorage.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/5-reasons-why-google-uses-tape-for-disaster-recovery">http://datasafestorage.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/5-reasons-why-google-uses-tape-for-disaster-recovery</a>/<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Alex Carver <agcarver+ale@acarver.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">I suppose you're right. :) Perhaps if I write it as (Giant Storage) <br />System it might be more descriptive of what I'm looking for. It doesn't <br />have to be a full-size rack of drives, it just has to have a huge amount <br />of disk space available that can grow over time (though eventually it <br />would likely fill a full-size rack depending on space consumption).<br /><br />RAID 10 might be a bit overkill but some type of RAID arrangement was <br />certainly in the idea only with a virtual file system spread over the <br />whole thing.<br /><br />On 7/13/2012 17:18, Scott McBrien wrote:<br />> I feel like a single machine with a pile of drives doesn't qualify as a 'giant storage system' to most of us. Though I suppose if I change the emphasis on what words I pay attention to, I could read this as 'a giant storage machine' ;-)<br />><br />> Please use something like RAID10 on these disks, it'll halve your usable space, but provide a little resiliency.<br />><br />> -Scott<br />><br />> On Jul 13, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale@acarver.net> wrote:<br />><br />>> On 7/12/2012 00:20, gcs8 wrote:<br />>>> I built a large zfs pool for my personal use hear at the house, (<br />>>> <a href="http://gcs8.org/san">gcs8.org/san</a> ) iscsi has good throughput and you can have a small server<br />>>> take care of sharing it out from there. I use freenas and it has served me<br />>>> pretty well. I have ~35.6tb after raid z2. The theory for my design was<br />>>> that if I lose any hardware I can replace it with what ever sense freenas<br />>>> it taking care of my disks not the hardware. If I could change 2 things<br />>>> about my setup I would try and get infinaban or at least 10gb eth, and use<br />>>> a ssd for cacheing.<br />>>><br />>>> Now I can't afford to keep a second one to rsync to but I do use crash<br />>>> plain to back it up, works fine I have 8.7tb backed up with them right now.<br />>>> Just my. 02 cents.<br />>><br />>> This is pretty much what I was thinking about (I had even looked at that<br />>> very Norco enclosure) except for adding the SATA/SAS expander to allow<br />>> more drives to hang off a single SATA/SAS card. A second or third<br />>> enclosure plus SATA/SAS cables pulled from the first enclosure to the<br />>> others (what's the longest cable available? I haven't seen external SAS<br />>> connectors.) would give me more physical expansion (as needed) but still<br />>> have only one machine/OS running.<br />>><hr /><br />>> Ale mailing list<br />>> Ale@ale.org<br />>> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br />>> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br />><br />><hr /><br />> Ale mailing list<br />> Ale@ale.org<br />> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br />> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br />><br />><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>