Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:12:03 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050627180959.087b8900@localhost> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a050626173456cb1c6f@mail.gmail.com> References: <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org> <ef10de9a050626173456cb1c6f@mail.gmail.com>
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At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: >Highpoint RocketRAID: >1640: 4xSATA, PCI 32bit, 33MHz >1810A: 4xSATA, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >1820A: 8xSATA, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >2220: 8xSATA-II, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz > >With the exception of the 2220 all of the other cards do RAID 5 in >software. For your needs just about any RAID card from anyone will do >what you want. The main reason I recommended highpoint's raid cards >this because the company fully supports FreeBSD 4.x / 5.x with drivers >and CLI/GUI management programs. That's great! We don't run GUIs on servers that run RAID (for obvious reasons), but if they have a good CLI program it'll work well. >For you hot-swapping needs look here for SATA cages: >http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=GO&Range=1&bop=and&description=cage&srchInDesc=SATA Anything that'll fit in a 17" relay rack? --Brett
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