From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norman White Subject: Re: 5 drives lost in an inactive 15 drive raid 6 system due to cable problem - how to recover? Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:51:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8A7E31.7000503@stern.nyu.edu> References: <4C87C656.2030405@stern.nyu.edu> <20100909073530.1e5da34d@notabene> <4C8A4C3F.4050109@stern.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" Cc: linux-raid maillist List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/10/2010 1:47 PM, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello Norman , > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Norman White wrote: >> On 9/8/2010 5:35 PM, Neil Brown wrote: >>> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:22:30 -0400 >>> Norman White wrote: >>> > ...snip... >> >> On the other hand, we have a 30TB raid 6 array (about 21 TB formatted >> with a hot spare) that is extremely fast and inexpensive. (~ $4k ). >> We are considering buying another and having a dedicated server with >> several arrays connected to it and put in a protected environment. >> > Would you please elaborate on the construction of this array ? Or > if purchased it's manufacturer & product number ? > I find such a device very interesting . Maybe many others will as > well . > Tia , JimL You can find more detail on the construction of the array, costs, components, performance, issues etc on my blog at http://researchcomputing.blogspot.com/ Best, Norman White