Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:26:16 +0300 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: "Aaron C. Meadows" <freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID Cards.. Message-ID: <429CAC48.90500@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com> References: <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com>
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Aaron C. Meadows wrote: > I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an > Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM > Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives. > > My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, > would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card? > > Contingent question is, if I should get another RAID card, what would > be a good, supported, entry level card? This server will be purposed > as a webserver for a small webhosting company, maybe 100 sites on it. > Running Postfix,Bind,Apache2,PHP,Postgresql,etc I'm running a Netfinity 5000 with IBM ServeRAID 3L adapter. I won't say it's good (it lacks any kind of online RAID management or monitoring from within FreeBSD AFAICT), but it works and is definitely 'entry level'. This machine works as a webmail/IMAP server for ~150 users, listserver hosting ~50 mailing lists and as incoming mail scanner/gateway (postfix+amavisd+spamassassin+clamav) for another mail server with ca 500 users. Getting it to work with FreeBSD 5.2.1 was a pain, but 5.3 seems to run good. Doesn't boot with ACPI enabled, though. As to other suggestions made in this thread, they don't seem to be relevant for Netfinity 5000 since I can't think of a way to use ATA drives in this machine. --- ... When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
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