From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 22:30:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FF737BAC0 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e535Uo101559; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 23:30:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006030530.e535Uo101559@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Kim J. Brand" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID suggestions In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000602204750.00744d00@192.168.0.1> From: Chris Fedde Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 23:30:50 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:47:50 -0500 "Kim J. Brand" wrote: +------------------ | does anyone have any suggestions regarding a medium performance RAID | controller for FreeBSD? +------------------ If you are only looking for "medium" performance I'd go with vinum. Spend the cash you save on the raid controler on seperate scsi controlers for the OS disk and the data controlers and get high rpm drives for the data volumes. Also turn on soft updates in the kernel. It won's speed up writes or reads but it will improve create/delete performance and it'll let the system recover more easily in the event of a power crash. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message