Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:49:59 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building RAID systems Message-ID: <199707230749.JAA21433@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199707230652.IAA04056@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Jul 23, 97 08:52:54 am"
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In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote: > > Does anyone have a pointer to a recipe to build up > a RAID system? > > a) what controllers are there? > > b) can one build such systems of cheapo IDE drives? > > (with FreeBSD having control over it - of course) You could put 4x7gigs EIDE drives on the two EIDE channels on a modern motherboard. The run CCD to concat them together to one 28gig drive :) I do this with two 4gig MAXTOR's, one on each channel of cause, works like a charm, and have given me 8gigs for US$ 500 .... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..
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