Re: limits on raid

[Phillip Susi]

david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> one channel, 2 OS drives plus the 45 drives in the array.

Huh?  You can only have 16 devices on a scsi bus, counting the host 
adapter.  And I don't think you can even manage that much reliably with 
the newer higher speed versions, at least not without some very special 
cables.

> yes I realize that there will be bottlenecks with this, the large 
> capacity is to handle longer history (it's going to be a 30TB circular 
> buffer being fed by a pair of OC-12 links)

Building one of those nice packet sniffers for the NSA to install on 
AT&Ts network eh? ;)


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