From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@keldix.com>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: Larry Schwerzler <larry@schwerzler.com>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Raid selection questions (10 vs 6, n2 vs f2) on an 8 drive array
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:54:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110219005439.GA3251@www2.open-std.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5F0458.3060403@hardwarefreak.com>
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:44:24PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Larry Schwerzler put forth on 2/18/2011 2:55 PM:
>
> > 1. In my research of raid10 I very seldom hear of drive configurations
> > with more drives then 4, are there special considerations with having
> > an 8 drive raid10 array? I understand that I'll be loosing 2TB of
> > space from my current setup, but i'm not too worried about that.
>
> This is because Linux mdraid is most popular with the hobby crowd, not
> business, and most folks in this segment aren't running more than 4
> drives in a RAID 10. For business solutions using embedded Linux and
> mdraid, mdraid is typically hidden from the user who isn't going to be
> writing posts on the net about mdraid. He calls his vendor for support.
> In a nutshell, that's why you see little or no posts about mdraid 10
> arrays larger than 4 drives.
well on https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Performance
there are several performance reports with 6 or 10 spindles, so there...
For an 8 drive Linux MD raid10 maybe you should consider a motherboard
with 8 sata ports.
Best regards
keld
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-19 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-18 20:55 Raid selection questions (10 vs 6, n2 vs f2) on an 8 drive array Larry Schwerzler
2011-02-18 23:44 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-19 0:54 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2011-02-19 1:53 ` Larry Schwerzler
2011-02-19 4:33 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-20 9:57 ` Simon Mcnair
2011-02-19 1:50 ` Larry Schwerzler
2011-02-19 1:12 ` Joe Landman
2011-02-19 1:33 ` Larry Schwerzler
2011-02-19 3:59 ` NeilBrown
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