Disk Capacity....

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Wed Jul 14 15:12:55 2004

> > All this means that the modern way to large capacity is to combine
> > lots of (physically) small drives -- in other words, RAID. That also
> > gives you fault tolerance, and increased performance by putting more
> > heads to work.
>
> RAID is certainly the way to go. I'm sort of tempted to
> try it out on my home system sometime but there's always
> been something else to do first!

I can vouch for (and suggest ;-) the Infortrend boxes... they do
EIDE drives on the inside (my units have 14 drives each) and do
either LVD SCSI (U160) or FC on the outside. All the usual RAID
gadgets are present in the box' firmware.

--f
Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 15:12:55 BST