[Gllug] Large raid 5/5+0 setup

[Justin Perreault]

On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 11:40 +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> 
> 2009/6/19 James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton at gmail.com>
>         
>          
>         I would take the simple approach and just purchase a few PCs
>         and just
>         put 5 HDs in each for RAID 5. Make sure the PC case is a
>         goodish one
>         with lots of air flow due to heat produced by those HDs.
>         Your application is streaming, so using RAID 5 will not slow
>         it down
>         at all really.
> If you do go this route, it might be interesting to use Lustre. In the
> jargon, each of these PCs with a RAID set will be an 'object storage
> target'. You'll also have to designate one machine as a 'metadata
> target'.

This might be the most effective path if I am to be using multiple
machines to create the storage space. From what I have read after
setting it up I could simply tell the MythTV box to access Lustre as a
storage space and it would be none the wiser.

Thanks.

Justin

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