[BlueOnyx:07115] Re: raid array

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
  >> Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
>>> Does anyone know how large a drive the BlueOnyx and Aventurine could 
>>> read?
>>> 4TB ?
>> The CentOS installer (and fdisk) do not support anything larger than 2TB.
> 
> Thanks Chris!
> 
> Michael had mentioned that disk IO is normally the bottleneck  for servers 
> with Aventurine with multiple VPS.

Most accurately: disk IO is normally the bottleneck for *any* 
virtualized platform.

> I was wondering if I could  use 8 1-TB drives in raid 10.
> So, if I do that, I'll go for the 8   500 meg drives in raid 10.

You can do that, certainly.  Some of my customers with big VPS machines 
use the strategy of multiple volumes spread across diverse sets of 
disks.  The theory there is that you are not putting all of your eggs in 
the single bottle-necked basket.

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