From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 14: 1:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.bchosting.com (shell.bchosting.com [64.69.68.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D462837B718 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by shell.bchosting.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2NM1Hc50557; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:01:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.bchosting.com: chris owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:01:17 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Phillips X-Sender: chris@shell.bchosting.com To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID Level 5 In-Reply-To: <200103232124.f2NLOKL94297@squid.tznet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would highly recommend the Mylex eXtreme RAID 2000 card for U160 drives. -Chris Phillips On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Scott Pilz wrote: > We're looking at AMI's and other Raid Level 5 cards.. we'll be running FreeBSD 4.2. We'll have four hard drives to do this with (this will be a mail server). > > I, honestly, think that raid 5 is overkill.. But the company that I work for does not. > > Price apparently isn't an issue.. so, lets have some fun with this.. what type of expensive, yet, GOOD reliable cards and equipment do you recommend for raid level 5 on FreeBSD 4.2 that is supported? We found numerous ones listed out there on the mailing lists, however, no model numbers? > > Thanks. > > 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