SQL will scale via federated servers. Naturally, you will want to partition the DB and use multiple filegroups/Files so 2TB limit will not be an issue.
This configuration is a bit light on resources for a single server, let alone two. A total of eight disks does not give you enough IOPS and as Steve...
NetApp uses a technique called wide striping. Basically, they stripe all the disk in Raid-4 DP (dual parity) and create a pool that you allocate to logical units that you...