5TB raid

Tue Apr 15 15:09:37 UTC 2008

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:08:06AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Why not create one large RAID array? Many applications, like many SQL 
> DB's, suffer performance hits on RAID /until/ you get to 6+ drives in a 
> single array.

I thought 32bit linux was still limited to 2TB per device, while 64bit
could go much larger.  That may have changed though.  Personally the
clostest I have got is 1.5TB so far (raid5 of four 500GB drives) and I
run 64bit of course.

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Len Sorensen
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