From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 22 03:53:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA07811 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 03:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA07760 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 03:53:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bsdscsi@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id NAA14141 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:53:43 +0300 (EET DST) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199609221053.NAA14141@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: striping/mirroring? To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:53:43 +0300 (EET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hi i've asked this one on usenet before too, but got no replies... i'm about to set up a server that's meant to be "serious" in some sense... the machine will be ga586hx512 boarded, about 128 megs of ram (later more), and i will get adaptec 3940uw... now, what i want to know is which scsi drives would give me the best performance/reliability... i've personally thought using barracuda 4lp, but i feel a bit sceptic it's reliability... anyway, the plot is, if freebsd is able to do it (i know how to strip disks, not how to mirror) that i'd use disk striping on 3-4 drives, and would mirror it to one... can i? how, if i can? mickey -- mika@aeon.net mika ruohotie