Hey Everyone—
I have a couple of EMC KTN-STL3 enclosures on the way with 45TB (15 x 3TB) in each. These will be replacing the RAIDs I have on both of my Mac Pro servers, which host my media archive in 2 different locations. The included 45TB is more than I need currently. My 2 servers currently have:
Michael Scott :
4 x 4TB RAID 5
12TB usable
10TB in use
Jim Halpert:
6 x 2TB RAID 5
10TB usable
8TB in use
Michael Scott hosts an extra backup snapshot of one of my machines, so that accounts for its extra 2TB used.
The new arrays will be connected to Areca 1880x or 1680ix RAID cards, and I plan to go to RAID 6 for a little extra protection (keep in mind these mirror each other as well). But even then, that would be 39TB available if I used all 15 drives for each...way more than the 8TB I'm using now.
Interested to hear your thoughts on how you'd configure the disks/shelfs if it were you. I was thinking I could possibly use 10 drives in RAID 6 (so 30TB, 24TB usable) and then have 5 spares per enclosure, as well as 5 open bays for utility use. I guess it also occurs to me that while fun to have the maximum capacity showing up and available, it's also easier to expand an array than to downsize it (if I wanted to reclaim some unused bays/drives later).
Thanks for your thoughts!
I have a couple of EMC KTN-STL3 enclosures on the way with 45TB (15 x 3TB) in each. These will be replacing the RAIDs I have on both of my Mac Pro servers, which host my media archive in 2 different locations. The included 45TB is more than I need currently. My 2 servers currently have:
Michael Scott :
4 x 4TB RAID 5
12TB usable
10TB in use
Jim Halpert:
6 x 2TB RAID 5
10TB usable
8TB in use
Michael Scott hosts an extra backup snapshot of one of my machines, so that accounts for its extra 2TB used.
The new arrays will be connected to Areca 1880x or 1680ix RAID cards, and I plan to go to RAID 6 for a little extra protection (keep in mind these mirror each other as well). But even then, that would be 39TB available if I used all 15 drives for each...way more than the 8TB I'm using now.
Interested to hear your thoughts on how you'd configure the disks/shelfs if it were you. I was thinking I could possibly use 10 drives in RAID 6 (so 30TB, 24TB usable) and then have 5 spares per enclosure, as well as 5 open bays for utility use. I guess it also occurs to me that while fun to have the maximum capacity showing up and available, it's also easier to expand an array than to downsize it (if I wanted to reclaim some unused bays/drives later).
Thanks for your thoughts!