Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:56:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: limits on raid |
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote:
> Subject: Re: limits on raid > > david@lang.hm wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Brendan Conoboy wrote: >> >>> david@lang.hm wrote: >>>> yes, sorry, ultra 320 wide. >>> >>> Exactly how many channels and drives? >> >> one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array. > > Given that the drives only have 4 ID bits, how can you have 47 drives on 1 > cable? You'd need a minimum of 3 channels for 47 drives. Do you have some > sort of external box that holds X number of drives and only uses a single > ID?
yes, I'm useing promise drive shelves, I have them configured to export the 15 drives as 15 LUNs on a single ID.
I'm going to be useing this as a huge circular buffer that will just be overwritten eventually 99% of the time, but once in a while I will need to go back into the buffer and extract and process the data.
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