If you can afford it and this is for real work, you may want to
consider something like a Network Appliance Filer. It will be
a lot more robust and quite a bit faster than rolling your own
array. The downside is they are quite expensive. I believe the
folks at Raidzone make a "poor man's" canned array that can
stuff almost a terabyte in one box and uses cheaper IDE disks.
If you can't afford either of these solutions, 73gig Seagate
Cheetahs are becoming affordable. Packing one of those
rackmount 8 bay enclosures with these gets you over 500gb
of storage if you just want to stripe them together. That
would likely be VERY fast for reads/writes. The risk is that
you'd lose everything if one of the disks crashed.
Cheers,
Chris
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 16:46:37 2000
>
> Sounds like fun. Check out VA Linux's dual CPU boxes. They also
> offer fast LVD SCSI drives which can be raided together. I've got one
> dual P3-700 w/ dual 10k LVD drives. FAST!
>
> I'd suggest staying away from NFS for performance reasons. I think
> there is a better replacement out there ('coda' or something?). NFS
> will work, but I don't think it's what you want. You could also try
> connecting the machines through SCSI if you want to share files
> quickly (I haven't done this, but have heard of it).
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> Phil
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 03:22:46PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I have an odd question. Where I work we will, in the next year, be in a
> > position to have to process about a terabyte or more of data. The data is
> > probably going to be shipped on tapes to us but then it needs to be read
> > from disks and analyzed. The process is segmentable so its reasonable to
> > be able to break it down into 2-4 sections for processing so arguably only
> > 500gb per machine will be needed. I'd like to get the fastest possible
> > access rates from a single machine to the data. Ideally 90MB/s+
> > [...]
>
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