shanenin Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 My friend is upgrading his current 6 tb raid 5 media server(its full) to 12tbs(formatted space) using raid 6. He just ordered an $1100 raid card. He also has 24 750 gb drives to put in his Raid 6 array. In theory he can have two drives die, and still not lose any data. He also has one drive as a hot spare.When I met him, he was just 16 years old(4 years ago). His sisters played with my son. I new he was into computers, so I showed up to his house with knoppix cd. He thought linux was the coolest thing ever. We have been friends ever since. Back then he was running a slow 1.0ghz celeron system with Windows 2000 pro. Look how things change,. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lefty1953 Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 My friend is upgrading his current 6 tb raid 5 media server(its full) to 12tbs(formatted space) using raid 6. He just ordered an $1100 raid card. He also has 24 750 gb drives to put in his Raid 6 array. In theory he can have two drives die, and still not lose any data. He also has one drive as a hot spare.When I met him, he was just 16 years old(4 years ago). His sisters played with my son. I new he was into computers, so I showed up to his house with knoppix cd. He thought linux was the coolest thing ever. We have been friends ever since. Back then he was running a slow 1.0ghz celeron system with Windows 2000 pro. Look how things change,.Just curious, what would one do with all that? I guess if he is a gamer he could buy every game made and install them. But wouldn't that leave him about half his drives with nothing on them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 He uses it to store video files, movies and other stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted March 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 He just finished expanding the array to use all the drives. He is getting about 600MB/s sustained read speeds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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