From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 22 15:27:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.acs.oakland.edu (cliff.acs.oakland.edu [141.210.10.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464E637B7EA for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajwoodbe@oakland.edu) Received: from w00d (ppp-pm04-dy-04.cd1.dialup.oakland.edu [141.210.16.13]) by cliff.acs.oakland.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA05708 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:27:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Suggestions for a good hard drive in our FreeBSD ftp server... Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:27:08 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm hoping someone could offer some advice as to what brand/model of hard drive would be good for a FreeBSD web server serving at most 100 users (not all transfering at the same time of course). Our FTP server is a custom-built Pentium-II 400MHz system with 128MB RAM, an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100+ NIC operating at 100Mb/s full-duplex, a 9 GIG Western Digital Caviar HDD, and an Acer motherboard. The plan is to add an additional 20 GIGs of space at the very least while keeping the price down. Initially I planned on purchasing 1 or 2 Western Digital Expert 27.3 GIG hard drives (7200 rpm, Ultra-ATA 66, etc.) and dedicating the new drive(s) as storage space for the uploaded files. The data that will be stored on this server is CAD data. My main concern is whether or not the hard drive will be the bottle neck during heavy loads. Would I be all right with the WD Expert HDD I mentioned above or should I purchase a SCSI controller and SCSI hard drive? This server may also be serving a static web page with some dynamic content in the near future. Thanks for the help. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message