Hi All,
Was hoping to pick some brains here.
We're looking to build a rather large storage array that will be Raid 5. But I'd like to keep it at four drives.
Since SCSI seems to max out at 320GB per drive. . . limiting us to about a TB of usable space in Raid 5 with four disks, I'm considering SATA and 7200RPM disks. Performance is not as important as capacity.
So, the question them becomes, what are the enterprise/server class SATA drive options out there with firmware that is tweaked for a multi-user environment?
Thanks!
Was hoping to pick some brains here.
We're looking to build a rather large storage array that will be Raid 5. But I'd like to keep it at four drives.
Since SCSI seems to max out at 320GB per drive. . . limiting us to about a TB of usable space in Raid 5 with four disks, I'm considering SATA and 7200RPM disks. Performance is not as important as capacity.
So, the question them becomes, what are the enterprise/server class SATA drive options out there with firmware that is tweaked for a multi-user environment?
Thanks!