Server, Take 2
:: Wednesday, January 12th, 2005 @ 12:45:54 am
:: Tags: Computers
I’m in the process of building a second data server to mirror the first one, and I already feel like the first one has too little storage space. Argh. Of course, these two mirrored boxes will be sitting right next to each other, so in the event of physical catastrophe I’ll be screwed. Perhaps I’ll mirror the data and then move one of the boxes to a friend’s place and have nightly rsyncs…
Anyway, I’m going to get a Broadcom RAIDCore 8-channel SATA RAID card this time around instead of a 3Ware Escalade controller. And I’ll stick 8 300GB drives in it (400GB drives are still too expensive!), which will give me 2.1 TB of usable RAID 5 storage.
Since my other box only has 1 TB of usable storage, I’ll have to figure out a way to back up the orphaned 1.1 TB, but I suppose I’ll tackle that problem when I get to it. :)
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400GB drives are still kind of crazy. Nonetheless, we just recently built a big storage system using 6 x 400GB drives in a RAID 5 array for total usable storage space of just under 2TB. Of course, there was also a pair of mirrored 10Krpm Raptor drives for the OS and apps. LOUD machine.
Thats soooo much space and i thought my 600GB was a lot on my 3 drives !!
wow wow wow
i hope i never need thath much .. i will go crazy and just stop using computer and take film photos again and not make any websites, i’ll write letters and not emails.
1TB… man. I remember when you were the first kid on the block to have 1 GB, too! :)
I think I’ve figured out a way to make the old box more… uh, usable.
I’ll get this new box working, copy all the data over, and then put two more 200GB drives in the old box and stripe the RAID instead of using RAID 5. That would give it 1.6 TB, leaving only 500GB orphaned. I can use that 500GB for stuff I don’t care about, like files my friends might also have backed up (media, etc.). That might work!
I’m going for a solution that will keep me happy for years. I only have about 350 GB of data right now, but it’s going to grow really fast as I shoot + process more images…