[Sussex] BIG disks....

[Diego Moore]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:00:39 -0000, Mark Harrison <mark at ascentium.co.uk> wrote:
>  
> Sorry if this is a dumb question. 
>   
> I have (maybe) a requirement to create a single big (a few Tb) "virtual
> disk". 
>   
> This will be, for various reasons, based around outboard FireWire2 hard
> disks, possibly using 1.6Tb drives, but more likely using 1Tb drives. 
>   
> The question is one of disk management. 
>   
> In the past, when I've had multiple physical disk drives on a server, I've
> given each a mount point. What I'm really after is something that functions
> as a hot-configurable controller, so that I can add extra drives to the
> pool, and have them function as if they were a single drive.... 
>   
> Possible? Easy? Pointers? 
>   
> M. 

Have your ever considered a NAS? I've seen some which come with
Hotswapable SATA drives and they are quite low cost. I've got a Snap
Appliance 4200 in the office but its older and not hotswapable (4 IDE
drives).

Runs Linux underneath...

DM