From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 10:16:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74FB916A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:16:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A8E943D58 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:16:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Feb 2006 10:16:53 -0000 Received: from 245.92.62.81.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO storage.mine.nu) [81.62.92.245] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 01 Feb 2006 11:16:53 +0100 X-Authenticated: #912863 Received: from storage.mine.nu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storage.mine.nu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k11AGoJJ010296 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:16:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars@storage.mine.nu) Received: (from lars@localhost) by storage.mine.nu (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k11AGocC010295 for freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:16:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:16:49 +0100 From: lars To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060201101649.GB10070@storage.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: RELENG_6 on ProLiant ML 370 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:16:55 -0000 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.