[Gllug] Large raid 5/5+0 setup

[John Hearns]

2009/6/19 James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton at gmail.com>

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> 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'.
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