10TB Raid 6 Array

Been a busy week – nothing like getting elbow deep in computer guts to clear your head from coding, this week aptly demonstrates that.

My main client has a big 8TB Sun Storedge raid array, unfortunately the way it was setup (4 x 2TB partitions) is starting to cause problems for them as the main partitions are filling up very quickly and being so ridgidly partitioned isnt really ideal. So (more as a backup than anything else) we decided to build ourselves a basic raid array.

We took 12 x 1TB drives, and a raid controller and built a beast of an array with it, the array itself finished building the other day and has taken the majority of today to format it while I transferred over the various other system files required to ensure that it can be a drop in replacement for the current server should anything go drastically wrong on it.