Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:38:36 -0500 From: "Ken Menzel" <kenm@icarz.com> To: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, "Keith Woodworth" <kwoody@citytel.net> Subject: Re: Server Hardware. Message-ID: <13fe01c3d943$abd70ea0$b2db7bd1@icarz.com> References: <20040112182106.DACAA43D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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We have about 800 users on 3 servers running RAID 1+0, plus our web server (RAID 1). No problems ever. Occasionaly a drive fails, stick in the new drive and the array rebuilds. The users never know. We use 3200's and 2100's. A lot of people have their favorites. Another good card I have heard of is Mylex, but only through hearsay. Most of the cards designed for high performance servers work fine, the differences are in scalability and manageability and what you like and how you use it and sometimes cost. The asr-utils from the ports collection works really well. (for the asr type controllers!). We don't use the "zero channel" controllers, so I can't comment on that. Best of luck Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>; "Keith Woodworth" <kwoody@citytel.net>; "Ken Menzel" <kenm@icarz.com> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Server Hardware. > > I keep hearing some people say that those zero-channel adaptec RAID > cards are not reliable while others say that they use them fine. Can someone > clear this up for me? how do they stand up to beating under heavy loads > and long uptime? > > Thanks, > Simon > > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:48:42 -0500, Ken Menzel wrote: > > >Hi Keith, > > I would recommend FBSD 4.x for production and also if you are not > >yet familiar with FreeBSD. This is really a freebsd-questions topic. > > > >Hardware info: > >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html#AEN33 > > > >We use mostly Adaptec with raidutil from ports collection: > >Adaptec 2100S/32x0S/34x0S SCSI RAID controllers ( asr(4) driver) > > > >Ken > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Keith Woodworth" <kwoody@citytel.net> > >To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> > >Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:46 PM > >Subject: Server Hardware. > > > > > >> Weve been running BSD/OS since 1996, with a few small FreeBSD > >machines > >> thrown in for testing and monitoring of things. > >> > >> Now since BSD/OS is EOL'd by WindRiver we will be moving to FreeBSD > >on > >> production machines. > >> > >> First will be a new webserver and probably a mailserver. Been > >looking at > >> some SuperMicro stuff and some of their machines are SATA Intel RAID > >and > >> it looks like FBSD 5.1 has support for this in their ata(4) driver. > >Is > >> this so? > >> > >> Anyone have recommendations on a board that will work with SCSI or > >IDE > >> Raid 1 under FBSD 4.8, 4.9 or even the 5.x train, that they are > >using in > >> production? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Keith Woodworth > >> MSN: shasta_5000@hotmail.com > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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