<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div id="yiv4405874231"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16">Hello world,</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16"><br></div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">what is the recommend architecture for a sheepdog setup with, lets say, 5-8x storage nodes with each 16x 3TB discs ?</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_27"></div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Our goal is reliability and performance. We are using 10Gbit/s as our storage network.</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_34"></div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">These are the different ways for us:</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395850925038_31641"><br></div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">1) Traditional Hardware RAID Controller with RAID Array (e. g. RAID6 or RAID10)</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_40"></div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">2) Sheepdog Mutli Disk without using any RAID (just JOBD via RAID Controller)</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395850925038_31644">How reliable is the Sheepdog Multi Disk feature ?</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica
Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_52"></div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Kind regards</div><div id="yiv4405874231yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1395850925038_16" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Giovanni</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>