From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 19:50:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FA516A46A for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:50:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 259D443D46 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Apr 2006 19:50:11 -0000 Received: from 205.86.203.62.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO [192.168.1.10]) [62.203.86.205] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 01 Apr 2006 21:50:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #912863 Message-ID: <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:50:20 +0200 From: Lars Cleary User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060203) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lars@gmx.at List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:50:13 -0000 Tenebrae wrote: > The server will be primarily an e-mail and web server for private use > with some rather large files. There are only a handful of users, but it > gets a bit busy at times when the DJs do an update. > I hope to get this up and running in the next month. > > If I've missed something painfully obvious here, please feel free to > educate me and/or point me to a URL. > > Thanks for any tips, Hi Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1? IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary, as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller is just as fast as any RAID controller. Also maybe see: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ for more details. HTH Lars