17 Apr
2012
17 Apr
'12
1:27 a.m.
On 17/04/12 11:25, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
One of my clients needs to reliably store terabytes of data which is mostly comprised of data files in the 10MB - 15MB size range. The data files will almost never be re-written [...]
Will they ever be re-read? ;-)
For that matter, do you really need all the files stored on a single machine? No matter what level of RAID you use, you still have a single point of failure in the server hardware. Why not pick up several smaller servers and use a cluster filesystem instead?