From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 06:08:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C42C16A42F for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 06:08:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com) Received: from glaaki.masonitg.com (glaaki.masonitg.com [66.119.7.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4981F43D4C for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 06:08:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com) Received: from [192.168.0.58] (unknown [24.137.137.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by glaaki.masonitg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547198E9A0; Thu, 26 May 2005 01:08:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <429567D7.1000403@shadowguarddev.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 01:08:23 -0500 From: "Aaron C. Meadows" Organization: ShadowGuard Development User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Strauser References: <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com> <200505241356.39253.kirk@strauser.com> <42938518.9070909@shadowguarddev.com> <200505241455.03285.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200505241455.03285.kirk@strauser.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID Cards.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:08:25 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: > >>I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and >>I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. > > >Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great >luck with software mirroring and striping, but those really don't put a lot >of demand on the CPU. If you're also doing database, mail, and PHP on the >same system then you'd probably want a bit of external acceleration. Don't everyone jump on this thread all at once.. I won't be able to read it fast enough... =) - --aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFClWfX/mrzqN8FLFURAtZpAJ9aSVC781eySrqmP6BM6qG5NluMwgCeOWGO 2hTLMuw1Tx3WGFA6DiS9qt4= =e6Xk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----