On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 19:06, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:36:37PM +0100, Niall O Broin mentioned:
> > Yes - your former boss now works for an organisation using such a
> > thing. 200TB is now achievable with fewer than 1000 disks. However,
> > when you're dealing with that many commodity disks, you have to have a
> > system which can easily handle the inevitable hardware failures without
> > degrading and one which can handle the large volumes of data. This
> > means data replication a la RAID, and so of course your disk count goes
> > up somewhat.
>> It's much quicker just to set it all up as one big RAID0 partition, and
> just keep good backups.
OMG, what are you saying John. All it takes is one disk to fail and you
loose the entire LUN!
But then again, I know you are joking :)
>> John
> --
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