From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 3 18:47: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB62C37B43C for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 18:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e841kvV17050 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:46:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:41:38 -0400 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Subject: RAID Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am putting together a new POP3 server and am looking at various RAID solutions. I have a couple of boxes deployed using 3ware IDE controllers as well as a Mylex DAC960 and a MegaRAID 428. For RAID0, the 3ware cards seem to perform quite well (I am using them for USENET and proxy servers). But for the POP3, I need something with a little more performance than I seem to get with the 3ware, Mylex and MegaRAID cards. (The 3ware is *REALLY* slow in RAID1, dont know about RAID 10). Has anyone tried the new Adaptec 2100S cards ? I dont want to shell out $500 bucks if they are not that much better than the DAC960s. What about vinum ? Is anyone using it in a production machine ? Is it reliable and ready for prime time ? I want to do either RAID5 or 10 in order to get speed and reliability. Thanks, ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message