From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 14:04:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A593616A4CE; Thu, 5 May 2005 14:04:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxc1.crockettint.com (chameleon1.crockettint.com [206.224.72.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2E843DC1; Thu, 5 May 2005 14:04:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emartinez@crockettint.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.crockettint.com [127.0.0.1]) by mxc1.crockettint.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6679033E3E; Thu, 5 May 2005 09:04:11 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mxc1.crockettint.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mxc1.crockettint.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12873-01; Thu, 5 May 2005 09:04:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from memnoch (ausc1.crockettint.com [24.153.230.82]) by mxc1.crockettint.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712CF33E37; Thu, 5 May 2005 09:04:07 -0500 (CDT) From: "Edgar Martinez" To: "'Tomas Quintero'" , Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:04:09 -0500 Organization: Crockett International MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Thread-Index: AcVJ60yH9uGxvtbTSCaBDHLLkCvMigHjymCQ In-Reply-To: <9e46c99e050425160557a21293@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20050505140407.712CF33E37@mxc1.crockettint.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at crockettint.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array - CONGRATS! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: emartinez@crockettint.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:04:13 -0000 All, I would like to THANK the dev team on 5.4 for all their hardwork. It has been delayed but I have to say that it really feels SOLID, and works like a dream...they have also surmounted some pretty HUGE problems in big disk support....KUDOS THANKS AWESOME...guys 5.4 is WORTH the wait... I think I can be the first to say that I have successfully created the worlds first sata based 16TB RAID container, on a single NAS server...tastes good... YOU GUYS ROCK! -----Original Message----- From: Tomas Quintero [mailto:tomasq@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 6:06 PM To: emartinez@crockettint.com Cc: Brent Wiese; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE I am almost a bit curious why you didn't go with a Microsoft based solution in a situation like this, where you are needing to provide SMB based file sharing to obviously Windows client desktops. Another solution would be to setup a dedicated NAS of some sort. But I suppose it's too late for all of that. On 4/25/05, Edgar Martinez wrote: > No flaming here, when dealing with projects this big, you cannot be bias > obviously because generally it is someone else's time and money that is on > the line. Thanks for the info, I didn't know the whole second array thing, > that would explain some of the weirdness that I have been seeing. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brent Wiese [mailto:brently@bjwcs.com] > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:54 PM > To: emartinez@crockettint.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE > > > Any one else think they know of a better method?? > > Well, I'm probably going to get totally flamed for this, but since you > asked... > > The better method is to install Windows 2003 Server. Assemble your drives > into 2TB or less RAID5 volumes (btw, you only want 1 per 3Ware card, more on > that in a second) and use Windows 2003 to span those volumes. It'll show up > as one drive after that. There is some limit, but I can't remember what it > is. Its huge though. > > And in case you didn't know, 3Ware cards are only speed-optimized for the > first array. Subsequent arrays on a card run painfully slow. They won't say > it in any of their lit, but if you corner their support people, they'll > admit it (it obvious if you try it). > > Sorry to mention M$ here, but it sounds like you invested incredible amounts > of time, and even Windows 2003 can be cheaper than your time at some point. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- -Tomas Quintero