8 Sun StorEdge 3000 Family Best Practices Manual • June 2004
before building a new logical drive is recommended. In the Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA
array, for example, this can result in a supported storage capacity of 16 Tbytes (8
logical drives x 2 Tbytes each = 16 Tbytes total capacity).
Note – For optimum configuration of the Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA array, only
sequential optimization is used.
TABLE 2 Maximum Number of Disks per Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array Logical Drive
Disk Capacity
(GB)
RAID 5
Random
RAID 5
Sequential
RAID 3
Random
RAID 3
Sequential
RAID 1
Random
RAID 1
Sequential
RAID 0
Random
RAID 0
Sequential
36.2 14 31 14 31 28 36 14 36
73.4 7 28 7 28 12 30 6 27
146.8 4 14 4 14 6 26 3 13
TABLE 3 Maximum Usable Capacity (Gbyte) per Sun StorEdge 3510 FC Array Logical Drive
Disk Capacity RAID 5
Random
RAID 5
Sequential
RAID 3
Random
RAID 3
Sequential
RAID 1
Random
RAID 1
Sequential
RAID 0
Random
RAID 0
Sequential
36.2 471 1086 471 1086 507 543 507 1122
73.4 440 1982 440 1982 440 1101 440 1982
146.8 440 1908 440 1908 440 1908 440 1908
TABLE 4 Maximum Number of Disks per Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA Array Logical Drive
Disk Capacity (GB) RAID 5 Sequential RAID 3 Sequential RAID 1 Sequential RAID 0 Sequential
250.0 8888
TABLE 5 Maximum Usable Capacity (Gbyte) per Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA Array Logical Drive
Disk Capacity RAID 5 Sequential RAID 3 Sequential RAID 1 Sequential RAID 0 Sequential
250.0 1908 1908 2000 2000