Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:40:16 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID solutions? Message-ID: <199609181740.KAA04117@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 18 Sep 96 09:50:31 -0600. <Pine.BSF.3.91.960918094711.7318A-100000@glacier.cold.org>
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>We are looking to put a RAID array onto a server, and were wondering which
>solution would be the best/most cost effective. We have daily incremental
>backups, so I doubt the powers that be would be willing to go for a full
>blown RAID system--so at this time we are likely looking at a card which
>will do a RAID array through the hardware (preferably Level 5). Has
>anybody had any experience with this? Any suggestions on which card (and
>drives) to get? I'm not exploring the hardware (just fishing for helpful
>hints :), but the guy who is mentioned something about an adaptec RAID
>card--comments on it?
Your best bet for "RAID" right now would be software RAID, using the
ccd. Man ccd and man ccdconfig for more info.
As far as I know, FreeBSD (and NetBSD) don't currently support any
hardware RAID controllers.
A final alternative is to get something that does RAID on the drive
side, transparently from the SCSI controller (i. e. uses a regular
SCSI controller and hides the fact that it's doing RAID). I don't
know who makes these, but people have posted about a couple of them in
the past, here.
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