February 19, 200818 yr I recently moved my media server into a new SuperMicro chassis with 24 hot-swap bays and redundant 900W power supplies. I'm currently using 8 320GB 7200.10 drives in a RAID6 config. I had plans to begin building a new RAID6 using 1TB 7200.11 (consumer) or ES.2 (enterprise) drives and slowly work my way up to a 21TB array (21 data disks, 2 stripe disks and a hot spare). But with that many drives in a single array, my chances of having a catastrophic failure during a rebuild would be rather high, even when using enterprise level drives with a 1x10^15 error rate. Since my Areca controller supports pass through (meaning that if I hang 24 drives off the controller, each one can be seem by the OS as an individual drive), I was wondering if I could run unRAID on this setup? Hardware specs as follows: Asus P5WDG2-WS Mobo Intel D805 CPU 2 512MB sticks of PC-6400 RAM Areca ARA-1170 PCI-X controller The mobo features dual Marvell Yukon GigE interfaces, which I understand are supported. I'm currently running XP Pro 64-bit w/ LBA support turned on so that I can have larger than 2TB arrays. XP is booting off a seperate 70GB Raptor at the moment. Here's a couple of pictures of this monster:
February 19, 200818 yr I think the current limitation is 16 drives for unraid. BTW, That's a sweet server!
February 20, 200818 yr If you are good with linux, you may want to check out ZFS. It offers RAIDZ and RAIDZ2, which are RAID5 and RAID6 but with more features. I was considering it for my server build, but I was really worried that it would just take too much time to get it up and running.
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