Using an AIC case, Supermicro motherboard, dual dual core Xeons, 4gb ram, Areca raid cards and 48 Seagate 750s I can build a system that has 36 TB raw at a cost of about $.80 per TB. We already have scads of systems based on 4u/24 disc cases. They work great.
We store images. Lots of images. Customer images. We recently bumped into the EXT3 4TB files system limit.
Redhat will only support GFS in addition to EXT3 and EXT2. I know we can carve up a >4tb volume into several smaller filesystems, but the nature of our storage architecture is that larger volumes are more efficient. I have seen very little mention of GFS and we strongly desire to maintain vendor (RH) support on these production systems.
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Using an AIC case, Supermicro motherboard, dual dual core Xeons, 4gb ram, Areca raid cards and 48 Seagate 750s I can build a system that has 36 TB raw at a cost of about $.80 per TB. We already have scads of systems based on 4u/24 disc cases. They work great.
We store images. Lots of images. Customer images. We recently bumped into the EXT3 4TB files system limit.
Redhat will only support GFS in addition to EXT3 and EXT2. I know we can carve up a >4tb volume into several smaller filesystems, but the nature of our storage architecture is that larger volumes are more efficient. I have seen very little mention of GFS and we strongly desire to maintain vendor (RH) support on these production systems.
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