[mirror-admin] Breaking the 1TB limit?

[Chuck Anderson]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 01:08:36PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 1) do many mirrors have more than 1TB they would be willing to use to
> host Fedora content?  If so, how many, and how much more?

I've been struggling with keeping my mirror in the 1.5TB I have 
available for Fedora.  As it is, I've had to move CentOS/EPEL to a 
separate 300GB disk array, and I've started deleting old Fedora 
releases, first 1-4 and now 5.  Once we finish the migration of some 
older boxes to CentOS, I'll be able to delete all obsolete releases to 
free up more space, about 455GB, bringing me back down to about 1TB, 
and leaving about 500GB free.

So, I guess for right now I'd rather not see Fedora grow past 1TB, but 
in the future (F14-F15 time frame) I could go up to 1.5TB.

Money is tight right now for upgrading to larger/more storage.  Anyone 
here play with cheap 1-2TB SATA disks + 3ware RAID cards for their 
mirror?  What do you use for external enclosures?  Is this really a 
viable option from a performance and reliability standpoint?

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