Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:05:48 -0600 From: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> To: 'Francisco Reyes' <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Fire-wire/fiber/SCSI? Message-ID: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B10459813@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>
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Since I sit right across from Matt I will reply for him. He is on the phone :) This will be transferring large files. Some ranging in the GB range for a single file. He (we) are trying to figure out if using a Netapp connected via: A) SCSI to single box is better B) Firewire connected to a single box or multiple will work C) Gigabit Eithernet to multiple boxes or single We are not that familiar with Fireware support (if it is supported at all) under BSD. This should only have to sustain 3-4 connections at a time to begin with, hopefully growing to greater. Our bandwidth is DS3 based and most people connecting will have a T1 or better. No, we don't have the Netapp. We are trying to set a "feasability" plan first. NetApps aren't cheap :) Our budget is somewhat open, although not infinite. --- Henrik Hudson Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Francisco Reyes Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:55 To: Matt Schlosser Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Fire-wire/fiber/SCSI? On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Matt Schlosser wrote: > I have to have either multiple servers or one great beast interface with a > NetApp (muloti-terrabyte storage). The project calls for moving > multi-gigabyte files at the highest possible transfer rates with 6 or so > connections constantly requesting and storing these files. I have read your message a few times and I am still not clear at what you are trying to do. How about describing the system or at least the data flow. Will all machines be constantly writing/reading/both? > My question is, would it be better to interface the server and netapp with > fiber and gigabit ethernet so I can connect multiple servers or would SCSI > and one super-fast server be better, Do you already have the NetApp? From your post it seems as if you don't have it and you are still trying to decide if to use that or to have SCSI disks on the server directly. Could you specify a bit on this. What do you have so far? What is your budget? Will the data be super big files or lots of small files? Give us more details. 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
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