Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 11:46:11 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: smurray@comboard.com (Seth Murray) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking Hardware Suggestions for First FreeBSD System Message-ID: <nfvgkt4uek32qcpb0utmujpu71v2kf87qs@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <SEN.994471936.889341574@news.sentex.net> References: <SEN.994471936.889341574@news.sentex.net>
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On 6 Jul 2001 22:12:16 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >Our small consulting company has decided to "dive into" BSD and wishes = to >build our own server to support some important projects. We are = considering >two designs and hope you might comment. High-system availability is >critical: > >SCSI RAID SYSTEM Look through the mailling list archives to see what experience people = have had with various controllers. For SCSI RAID I have personally used some = of the megaraid controllers and I have been satisfied with them. Many of = the drivers have been written my msmith@freebsd.org, so I would go with what = he reccomends on the lists. > >How does vinum compare to a hardware RAID controller as far as = reliability >and performance? Performance does not seem to be too far off from most low end = controllers. > >IDE RAID SYSTEM > >TYAN also makes a board (S2515) with on-board IDE RAID (Promise = Fastrak100). I wouldnt bother with the Promise RAID controller. From what I = understand, most of the RAID functionality is done in the drivers. I have only had experience with the FastTrak66 and I was less than happy with it.=20 On the other hand, 3ware.com makes an excellent IDE raid contoller and I have had great luck with it on FreeBSD, Linux and win2k. There is also a =46reeBSD specific RAIDset manager that works well. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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