[linux-lvm] Max storage size per system

[jon+lvm at silicide.dk]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:45:51PM +0100, Stephan Austermuehle wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:05:32PM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
> 
> > Hm,  sounds  like  lots.  :)  What kind of devices will you be running
> > with.  Even  with  300GB  drives  you will need 300-400 of them to get
> > 100TB.
> 
> A single HP XP 1024 (which is an OEM product of a HDS Lightning) stores
> 130 TB with a 7p1 RAID5 configuration and 146 GB disks.

hmm, that would need 130T/0.146T = 890 disks. And running raid 5...
personaly i dont like raid5, because if you loose more than one
disk your data are gone, and with this ammount of disks, i expect
failure rather often. (it's proberly not one big raid5 array,
but that just makes it need more disks).



JonB