[TriLUG] OT: Seeking other CORAID users

[Dave Hostetler]

"Can you provide details as to scalability (max storage size, access times, etc.) as well as the types of files you were storing/retrieving? "

So as far as scalability goes, according to Coraid's documents at the time you could run 65,535 shelves on the same system.  I used LVM to allow me to add in each shelf as it was purchased, then using XFS as the filesystem I just needed to "grow" the xfs to the new volume size.  This theoretically allowed me to create a 8EB volume ( with a 64-bit system ).  Last I check with them they had grown the system from the original 12TB of usable space to over 50TB of usable space.  I'm not completely sure on access times as this was basically just a giant store and didn't really have much access other than putting the files in place.  The file types where medical images, ranging from about 15MB to 45MB in size.  If you like you can email me off topic and I can send you a document that I wrote up for them to expand the storage after I left.  It should shed more detail than what I added here.

Dave Hostetler
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On May 19, 2010, at 11:13 AM, William Sutton wrote:

> Can you provide details as to scalability (max storage size, access times, etc.) as well as the types of files you were storing/retrieving?  Just curious...
> 
> William Sutton
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 2010, Dave Hostetler wrote:
> 
>> I designed a scalable storage solution with Coraid hardware and AoE as the base.  I would love to compare notes and see what new technology might be around now.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On May 19, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Josh Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> CORAID makes ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) SAN hardware. I'm trying to assess what
>>> sort of userbase CORAID has here in the Triangle, and maybe get together and
>>> compare notes.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> JJ
>>> 
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