[rescue] even larger disks in a SSA

[Mike Hebel]

On May 9, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Steve Sandau wrote:

> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 18:06, Steve Sandau wrote:
>>
>>>>> 136G x 30 disks is like 4TB or something. Even if the heat
>>>>> is too much and only half the slots are filled, that is still 2TB.
>>>>> Though, I have to remember that the array <-> machine interface is
>>>>> 250MB/sec or so?
>>>>
>>>> That's 250M *bits*/s, or about 30MB/sec
>>>
>>> Bummer.
>>
>>
>> 2Gb fiberchannel is about 250MB/sec - slower than U320 SCSI...
>
> On the upside, 250Mb/sec is still much faster than the NFS mounts I use
> at home over 10Mb ethernet... probably close to the speed I'd see out 
> of
> 100Mb ethernet NFS mounts, even...

*nod*  It's _all_ perspective and application.  While you can 
substitute a fast storage device for almost anything there are a lot of 
times you need space more than speed.

> As for the array, 'dd' is still chewing on the 146G drive. No errors
> yet, but no count of blocks either. I ran it with 'time' in front of it
> just for grins.

*chuckle*

So we'll be getting the results sometime over the next 72 hours?  ;-)

Mike Hebel
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