From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 7:41: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (ip-208-20-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B89937B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 07:41:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77320 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 15:41:03 -0000 Received: from localhost.snowmoon.com (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.snowmoon.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 15:41:03 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:41:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jaime To: ztomasic@houston.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID on the cheap In-Reply-To: <200010290700.BAA51057@cs28120-135.houston.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Zdenko Tomasic wrote: > I would normally prefer scsi setup which would be better, but cost is > the issue here. What would be recommended as an adequate CPU? PIII-733? > anything else to watch for? Make sure that you have plenty of RAM. I have a SCSI-based, four 18GB drives vinum array on a FreeBSD 4.1-Stable system at work. It works really well. I have a P-III 500 (or was it a 600?) and 256MB of RAM. Its mostly used for web based applications such as TWIG (http://twig.screwdriver.net), email (qmail and uw-imap), and file sharing (netatalk-asun and, soon, samba). No complaints so far and there are about 100-200 people using it daily. Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message