Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:16:49 +0100 From: lars <lars@gmx.at> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: RELENG_6 on ProLiant ML 370 Message-ID: <20060201101649.GB10070@storage.mine.nu>
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Hi all I'm thinking of buying a ProLiant ML 370 to work as a Samba fileserver. If I get the box with a Smart Array 642 SCSI controller it will cost a lot more than a version with the "6-port SATA controller", whatever this controller's chipset is or whether it can work two separate volumes in two different RAID arrays. I'd like to have the OS in a RAID 1 and the data in a RAID 5. So my questions are: Does anyone here run a ML370 with this 6-port SATA controller successfully with FreeBSD? Is there any reason, apart from obvious driver compatibility, why I should get a SCSI equipped box? SATA: controller: disk size(gb) disk cost CHF 538 2 x 80 2 x 150 4 x 250 4 x 360 Total: 1740.- SCSI: CHF 833 2 x 36 2 x 380 4 x 146 4 x 730 Total: 3660.- With SCSI I get nearly half the disk space for double the price. If the SATA controller handles all of this transparently it doesn't matter whether FreeBSD has a driver or not, but since I want to set up the box once and check on it only when there are SAs it has to be totally reliable. Thanks in advance for any enlightening opinions Lars.
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