[ale] Giant storage system suggestions

[Scott McBrien]

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' ;-)

Please use something like RAID10 on these disks, it'll halve your usable space, but provide a little resiliency.

-Scott

On Jul 13, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> On 7/12/2012 00:20, gcs8 wrote:
>> I built a large zfs pool for my personal use hear at the house, (
>> gcs8.org/san ) iscsi has good throughput and you can have a small server
>> take care of sharing it out from there. I use freenas and it has served me
>> pretty well. I have ~35.6tb after raid z2. The theory for my design was
>> that if I lose any hardware I can replace it with what ever sense freenas
>> it taking care of my disks not the hardware. If I could change 2 things
>> about my setup I would try and get infinaban or at least 10gb eth, and use
>> a ssd for cacheing.
>> 
>> Now I can't afford to keep a second one to rsync to but I do use crash
>> plain to back it up, works fine I have 8.7tb backed up with them right now.
>> Just my. 02 cents.
> 
> This is pretty much what I was thinking about (I had even looked at that 
> very Norco enclosure) except for adding the SATA/SAS expander to allow 
> more drives to hang off a single SATA/SAS card.  A second or third 
> enclosure plus SATA/SAS cables pulled from the first enclosure to the 
> others (what's the longest cable available?  I haven't seen external SAS 
> connectors.) would give me more physical expansion (as needed) but still 
> have only one machine/OS running.
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