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From: Ali Niknam <ali@xerxes.iephosting.net>
To: Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org>
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Subject: Re: RAID Level 5
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I personally use an Adaptac 2100-S and I like it... There is one problem
though, I can't get it to 160MBit/s for my three Quantum 10kII disks..
this has not been a big problem yet, but I wonder what it might be... the
controller, the disks or something else...

But that's all, all else is nice :)

Ali

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Chris Phillips wrote:

> 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.
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