Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:20:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bagnara Stefano <bago@datasail.it>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID1 Software vs Hardware Message-ID: <19981107102014.F499@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <008e01be09a3$88e06880$0f63b1c2@lust.datasail.it>; from Bagnara Stefano on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 05:35:58PM %2B0100 References: <008e01be09a3$88e06880$0f63b1c2@lust.datasail.it>
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[Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Friday, 6 November 1998 at 17:35:58 +0100, Bagnara Stefano wrote: > I don't know if this is the correct list (sorry if not), anyway: The list's OK. Your message is difficult to read, though: one of the lines was 136 characters long. I've corrected the format here. > I need to implement a simple raid1 with 2 9gigs SCSI HDD. I need a > inexpensive solution ... so i was thinking about a software raid1. > Is it possible? Yes. > is it too slow? The software aspects don't make a significant difference in performance. You're still limited by the disks themselves. > the system will be only a mail server. Any idea of the disk data rates? > How can i do hw raid with a low cost card?? and.. what card? Well, it would be a DPT board, but I don't know if it's low cost. For the software alternative, see Vinum (http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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