Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Yeah.. It won't be long before 2T+ is very commonplace... even for cheap servers. We just built a fairly inexpensive fileserver to use with drbd, and it's got 1.5T available (and it's like 1/5 the cost of the box it's replacing). A 2T system can be put together very easily for under $3000. Basic "descent" computer w/o drives: $500 (should be easy) 8 port sata raid 5 controller: $480 300Gb sata drives: 8 @ $234 = $1896 $1896 + 480 + 500 = $2876 = 2100 GB system I know a lot of people that have spent more putting together a personal computer before. I suppose you could get around the limit by making 1T drbd devices, and using lvm to glue them together, but it seems awkward. If we were upgrading our server just a few months down the road, I'm sure thats what we'd be looking at since we were just taking the best bang for the buck approach. On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 16:27, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Lars Ellenberg wrote: > > > two drbd with ca. 2TB each will do, probably. three is unlikely, > and > > four of that size is probably not possible currently. > > > this is a known problem, and will eventually be fixed. > > it does not seem very hard to fix, but as long as we have the > impression > > that "the average drbd user" does not use several TB of storage, > fixing > > that has low priority... > > Hmm, times are changing very fast. Two years ago I had 12 GB on > servers > and 50 GB in total at home office. Now I have 2 x 240 GB on servers > and > around 1 TB in total. > > At last project they had 27 TB storage system on one server (for _one_ > application) and 17 TB of this mirrored by 11 km fiber to an hot > standby > - not DRBD, obviously. > > Helmut Wollmersdorfer > > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >