From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 8:50:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C88937B402 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:50:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA64698; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:46:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:54:36 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes To: Matt Schlosser Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Fire-wire/fiber/SCSI? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Matt Schlosser wrote: > I have to have either multiple servers or one great beast interface with a > NetApp (muloti-terrabyte storage). The project calls for moving > multi-gigabyte files at the highest possible transfer rates with 6 or so > connections constantly requesting and storing these files. I have read your message a few times and I am still not clear at what you are trying to do. How about describing the system or at least the data flow. Will all machines be constantly writing/reading/both? > My question is, would it be better to interface the server and netapp with > fiber and gigabit ethernet so I can connect multiple servers or would SCSI > and one super-fast server be better, Do you already have the NetApp? From your post it seems as if you don't have it and you are still trying to decide if to use that or to have SCSI disks on the server directly. Could you specify a bit on this. What do you have so far? What is your budget? Will the data be super big files or lots of small files? Give us more details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message