Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:41:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Sabre <sabre@sabresdomain.com> To: Adam <ajwoodbe@oakland.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Suggestions for a good hard drive in our FreeBSD ftp server... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002221839230.18599-100000@sabre1.sabresdomain.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLEIJALJKACDMNFLJEEBCCBAA.ajwoodbe@oakland.edu>
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Depends on how much money you want to spend :) If you just want enough speed at low cost, stick with the U66 IDE stuff. If you want something a little better, go with a SCSI controller and nice SCSI drives. If you want something that is speedy and has built-in tollerance, then go for a 0,5 RAID with three Cheeta's :) It all comes down to money :) Sabre On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Adam wrote: > I'm hoping someone could offer some advice as to what brand/model of hard > drive would be good for a FreeBSD web server serving at most 100 users (not > all transfering at the same time of course). Our FTP server is a > custom-built Pentium-II 400MHz system with 128MB RAM, an Intel EtherExpress > Pro 100+ NIC operating at 100Mb/s full-duplex, a 9 GIG Western Digital > Caviar HDD, and an Acer motherboard. The plan is to add an additional 20 > GIGs of space at the very least while keeping the price down. Initially I > planned on purchasing 1 or 2 Western Digital Expert 27.3 GIG hard drives > (7200 rpm, Ultra-ATA 66, etc.) and dedicating the new drive(s) as storage > space for the uploaded files. The data that will be stored on this server > is CAD data. My main concern is whether or not the hard drive will be the > bottle neck during heavy loads. Would I be all right with the WD Expert HDD > I mentioned above or should I purchase a SCSI controller and SCSI hard > drive? This server may also be serving a static web page with some dynamic > content in the near future. Thanks for the help. > > Adam > > > > 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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