[Gluster-users] 90 Brick/Server suggestions?

[Serkan Çoban]

>Any particular reason for this, other than maximising space by avoiding two layers of RAID/redundancy?
Yes that's right we can get 720TB net usable space per server with
90*10TB disks. Any RAID layer will cost too much..


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Gambit15 <dougti+gluster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> RAID is not an option, JBOD with EC will be used.
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> Any particular reason for this, other than maximising space by avoiding two
> layers of RAID/redundancy?
> Local RAID would be far simpler & quicker for replacing failed drives, and
> it would greatly reduce the number of bricks & load on Gluster.
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> We use RAID volumes for our bricks, and the benefits of simplified
> management far outweigh the costs of a little lost capacity.
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> D