Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:11:31 -0400 From: Colin Mitchell <crm@colinrmitchell.endoftheinternet.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Hardware RAID and FreeBSD. Message-ID: <1304035891.5251.7.camel@lenovo>
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Hello, BSDians. I am kind of a n00b to FreeBSD but have had great success and fun with it so far. I have two old Dell servers at home. One has Ubuntu server and is my web and mail server. The other is FreeBSD, and I run servers for a video game on it. I really like the FreeBSD server, especially the ports system, and how well it runs even though it is a 1GHz CPU. Anyways, I bought a new lower-end computer that I was hoping to replace both with. It is a dirt-cheap dual-core AMD that I had built for $175US. It came with a 500GB HDD, and I would like to get another one to put in it. Now, I would like to set up as a mirrored RAID setup (I think). I don't really know much about RAID, but I want to have the same disk image on both hard drives (in case one fails), and possibly three if I buy another HDD in the future. Is RAID 1 what I want? I also want to do SVN on it for my PhD code, as well as back up my Wordpress, Coppermine, etc... Now, here is where the FreeBSD gurus can chime in. I would like to get a hardware RAID card to tie it all together. I am also looking for a cheap one, maybe $30-$60US, if this is even feasible. Anyone have any suggestions? Any successes? Also, I see a lot of talk on here bout ZFS. Is this something I should try, instead of the standard UFS? Thanks for any help and suggestions! Colin.
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