Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:29:59 -0400 From: Damon Hammis <squirrel@hammis.com> To: Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@uli.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large IDE raid Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000711082540.00aaa140@hammis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007110116380.27840-100000@olgeni.localdomai n.net>
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Push for SCSI with a hardware RAID. The cost difference is rather large, but it's much better than taking a metric ----load of user complaints about slow performance. The last mail server I built had an INLINE RAID system on it for the /var/mail partition. FreeBSD saw it as one disk and it worked out quite well. But trust me from experience, as I inherited a network that had a few "servers" that had IDE drives and once I switched everything over to SCSI everyone was much happier. Just my $.02 --Damon At 10:55 AM 7/11/00 +0200, Jimmy Olgeni wrote: >Hello world, > >I'm a clueless FreeBSD newbie with some linux experience. > >I have to set up a large RAID for a somewhat big mail/http server for >an ISP (~500GB, "internet free mail"), and my company was looking into >raidzone, that is, a RAID made of inexpensive IDE drives with a custom >PCI controller. > >Raidzone supports linux and NT only, and it looks like they don't give >away the driver source code, so it can't easily be ported to *BSD. Do >you know of any similar products that support *BSD? Should I get a >clue and push for real SCSI? Should I use a hardware RAID controller, >or vinum? Are there any known "strange" interactions between vinum, >quotas and softupdates? > >Any help is really welcome. > >bye, > Jimmy > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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