[mythtv-users] 3Ware RAID 5 backend
Ben Dash
ben_dash at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 8 03:02:44 UTC 2007
--- GARETH GLACCUM <gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com>
wrote:
> Not got experience with these devices in a myth
> sense, but I use them a lot
> at work (every system I implement).
Do you need any sort of special hot swap IDE drive
caddy/cage or can you "hotswap" using a standard
removable caddy/cage with the 3Wares?
> The 7506 is quite an old model now, and is IDE. As a
> computer manufacturer
> we are finding that supplies of IDE are drying up a
> bit, and you may want to
> consider moving to SATA if this is going to be an
> investment for you (I
> think that making a 2.2TB array as you have here is
> an investment).
> If you are doing a RAID 5 set, you loose one of the
> disks to parity. Thus
> you have 750GB *3 (4 disks minus 1 for parity) =
> 2250 GB. Some of this will
> be lost in formatting and data information. I would
> reckon that if you were
> to set this up you would not be over the 2 TB limit.
> With the 9000 series (the current models) there is
> certainly no limit at 2TB
> (largest I have set is 11TB so far.). Personnally I
> have found 3ware to be a
> lot more dependable than adaptec, but we use them
> for slightly different
> purposes (3ware internal raid, Adaptec external SCSI
> raid)
> Hope this helps,
> Gareth
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Dash" <ben_dash at yahoo.com>
>
> I'm thinking about getting a 3Ware Escalade 7506-4
> and
> doing RAID 5 with 4 750GB drives.
>
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