[Alex Mitchell]

Hey Bret,

There is little point ‘now’ for uploading 1.5gig files that will be squashed to 69mb, however youtube keeps these files on the servers and when there are system updates uses the original files to generate the videos…

So as the codecs get better so does the videos… (how do you think they can support HTML5 when at one point they were only Flash?

Cheers,
A

[Alex Mitchell]

Remember the performance of Software Raid (which is what I believe your box to be) is 100% dependent on the amount of drives. (more so than Hardware- as Hardware is fast with minimal drives).

I think that 7 drives is the suggested amount for SW Raid. And FAST arrays use 10’s of drives.

I have found reports of users pulling 260MB/s out of only 5 drives so don’t despair.

MPIO is totally worth it in my opinion.

Cheers,
Alex

[Alex Mitchell]

@Glenn Venghaus

Hi Glenn, did you get Multi-Path working for you?

I have been testing out a HP N40L server solution as an iSCSI target using Global San iSCSI and Open Media Vault as the target OS.

I am currently trialling 3 x 3TB hdd’s as RAID 5 (so not great write but ok read) and I have been able to get reads of 150MB/s over dual ports. (Not maxing out connection due to only using 3 drives- (but they are expensive!)).

What was an important consideration was making sure that the NICS are on different subnets, GlobalSAN is great for MPIO as you simply ‘add’ another connection and point it to your 2nd Target NIC.

Let me know if this has helped or if I am on another planet with your current question.

However this sort of ‘aspect’ of computers is only going to get more important.

Currently my HP N40L has cost a bit more than I expected… quite a bit more… but I am happy with what it is pushing out with only 3 drives… will but crazy with 2 more!

YMMV