From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 18:39:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 6F24716A41F for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:39:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA3B43D4C for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:39:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from srv01.pcmedx.com ([70.32.89.153]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050626183928.RZZR19267.mta10.adelphia.net@srv01.pcmedx.com>; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:39:28 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.pcmedx.com [127.0.0.1]) by srv01.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CF82234D; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv01.pcmedx.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv01.pcmedx.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07367-03; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.240.244] (win2000.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by srv01.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B9C2234B; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42BEF65F.5060409@pcmedx.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:39:27 -0700 From: Mike Maltese User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new and f-prot at pcmedx.com Cc: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:39:30 -0000 Brett Glass wrote: > I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of > mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this > purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID > functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability. > A system that could re-mirror a replacement drive with minimal > impact on performance would be ideal. The 3ware 7000 series cards work great. Not sure about hot swap with IDE though. I'd go with a 8000 series card and SATA drives for that. Mike