From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 14:46:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4514716A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:46:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out003.verizon.net (out003pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C987943D2F for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:46:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.160.246.51]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040917144648.QQRL26805.out003.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:46:48 -0500 Message-ID: <414AF8D0.6020400@mac.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:46:40 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com References: <71f4a11286a1afa4a17864a.20040916223413.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> In-Reply-To: <71f4a11286a1afa4a17864a.20040916223413.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [68.160.246.51] at Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:46:47 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Highpoint RAID HPT374 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:46:49 -0000 Joshua Lewis wrote: > I am looking to make a RAID MIRROR using my built in HPT374 raid > controller on my ABIT AT7-MAX motherboard. I will be installing the OS, > MySQL, BIND9, POSTFIX2, APACHE2, PHP4, and MONO. > > I realize I should use separate drives. I will when I have the money. > > So my questions are: > > one is there anything special I should keep in mind (like drivers that > support this chip and so on) and two when I was creating the array in the > BIOS utility it asked what block size I would like to use. Using RAID-1 mirroring of two partitions on a single drive doesn't make a lot of sense: it will greatly slow down performance without gaining any real improvement to reliability. What blocksize you should use depends somewhat upon the files you use, and is best determined by benchmarking your expected load using the data you have; that said, normally a small blocksize will work fine if you have lots of small files. -- -Chuck