April 14, 201412 yr Author Nope. Just happened across the video. Thought it interesting that he mentioned that larger arrays were coming.
April 14, 201412 yr He doesn't seem all that knowledgeable about UnRAID ... he indicates it "creates a RAID file" on the individual drives; and refers to his array as a 96TB array (an array of all 4TB drives will be 92TB). Although he may very well be VERY knowledgeable, but just a bit imprecise in his linguistics (technical folks aren't always the best "explainers"). But yes, it's interesting that he indicates higher capacity arrays are coming -- although I'll believe that when Tom says he's working on it Quite candidly, I would NOT want more drives in an array only protected by a single parity drive. Even 23 drives is more than I'd recommend. Most enterprise storage environments won't use more than 8-12 drives in a RAID-5 array, and they often include hot spares with automatic rebuild, so any failed drive is IMMEDIATELY rebuilt. With even higher drive counts, the arrays are almost always RAID-6. I suspect (and hope) that if LimeTech is going to increase the drive count, it will be in conjunction with the implementation of dual parity, so UnRAID can tolerate two drive failures. ... Preferably with hot spare and automatic rebuild options
April 14, 201412 yr (24) 4TB drives is 96TB and using 6TB drives that would be larger. Nothing new or improved required. Unix Surplus is selling hardware and that hardware is 96TB. After all, even a 4TB drive is not 4TB to many people. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1438474 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140305/10102026443/survey-27-think-gigabyte-is-type-south-american-insect.shtml The whole gigabyte vs gibibyte is mostly unknown. But the court case got little press http://www.cnet.com/news/gigabytes-vs-gibibytes-class-action-suit-nears-end/ which had the completely expected outcome of repeating history http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html lawyers got paid... TB is less than TiB, add a letter to get more
April 14, 201412 yr Author He doesn't seem all that knowledgeable about UnRAID ... he indicates it "creates a RAID file" on the individual drives; and refers to his array as a 96TB array (an array of all 4TB drives will be 92TB). Although he may very well be VERY knowledgeable, but just a bit imprecise in his linguistics (technical folks aren't always the best "explainers"). But yes, it's interesting that he indicates higher capacity arrays are coming -- although I'll believe that when Tom says he's working on it Quite candidly, I would NOT want more drives in an array only protected by a single parity drive. Even 23 drives is more than I'd recommend. Most enterprise storage environments won't use more than 8-12 drives in a RAID-5 array, and they often include hot spares with automatic rebuild, so any failed drive is IMMEDIATELY rebuilt. With even higher drive counts, the arrays are almost always RAID-6. I suspect (and hope) that if LimeTech is going to increase the drive count, it will be in conjunction with the implementation of dual parity, so UnRAID can tolerate two drive failures. ... Preferably with hot spare and automatic rebuild options I agree. Not that knowledgeable. The few things that were particularly interesting ... 1 - As already mentioned, he seemed to have first hand knowledge that unRAID drive size was going to be expanded. Is he talking to Tom? 2 - He indicated that unRAID was very popular. Not sure his basis for that comment, but is some validation that knowledge of unRAID is out there. 3 - Interesting application. Portable storage. Who would have thought a 100Tb array would be so easy to move around. Just slap a stamp on it and send it anywhere.
April 15, 201412 yr Who would have thought a 100Tb array would be so easy to move around. Just slap a stamp on it and send it anywhere. Just think: If the 60TB drives others have prognosticated will be available in 2-3 years actually come about that quickly, you'll be able to build a FREE UnRAID server with 120TB of storage that fits in a mini-ITX case !! ... or an UnRAID Plus setup in the same case with 300TB of protected storage !! i.e. THIS could be a very easily portable 300TB system: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112348 Personally, I don't expect to see 60TB drives quite that soon. But I wouldn't be surprised at 8 or even 16TB units ... and even that would let a little case like that be a pretty significant portable storage box !!
April 15, 201412 yr Author [Personally, I don't expect to see 60TB drives quite that soon. But I wouldn't be surprised at 8 or even 16TB units ... and even that would let a little case like that be a pretty significant portable storage box !! Yea, we'd need an upstart to push the envelope, then the rest would follow quickly. The WD, Seagate and Toshibas of the world are going to be happy to see the sizes go up 1-2 TB at a time.
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