From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 11:24:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com (smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com [204.210.192.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE50B37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@ohio.com) Received: by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com; id OAA23508; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:22:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(166.108.139.2) by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com via smap (V4.2) id xma023441; Thu, 12 Jul 01 14:22:09 -0400 Received: from [206.128.102.10] ([206.128.102.10]) by bea-mx.thebeaconjournal.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGDI7L00.MBN for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:33:21 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jarnold@krcoms1.knightridder.com Message-Id: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:22:50 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Arnold Subject: Hard Drives for a new budget BSD server Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Building a new server over the next few months from bits of our office budget, so cost is a concern. this box will act primarily as a webserver. I've already scrapped together a box, power supply, ram, an adaptec scsi card and a 18 gig 10,000 rpm seagate cheetah scsi drive. The plan is to make this drive the data partition that hold all the websites and any data destined to be requested by the end users. I want to install a large IDE drive to be used for backups in addition to a Sony tape drive that will be attached to the box. Now my question... For the drive that will hold FreeBSD itself, am I defeating the purpose of the scsi drive by installing a 7,200 rpm IDE drive and using that as the OS drive? This is where I can save some money and have room to play with by going with IDE over SCSI. That would give me three drives: 1 smaller and fast 7200 IDE for the OS 1 Fast SCSI for data 1 IDE for backups in addition to the tape drive. Thanks for any insights. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message