From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 19:55:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E4816A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:55:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D0043D1F for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:55:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABB8222402 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:55:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88458-04 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:55:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (janus.daycos.com [204.26.70.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38574222401 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:55:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:55:02 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com> <200505241356.39253.kirk@strauser.com> <42938518.9070909@shadowguarddev.com> In-Reply-To: <42938518.9070909@shadowguarddev.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2995962.RvZ4sFUCD8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505241455.03285.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: Hardware RAID Cards.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:55:16 -0000 --nextPart2995962.RvZ4sFUCD8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: > I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and > I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great=20 luck with software mirroring and striping, but those really don't put a lot= =20 of demand on the CPU. If you're also doing database, mail, and PHP on the= =20 same system then you'd probably want a bit of external acceleration. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --nextPart2995962.RvZ4sFUCD8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBCk4aX5sRg+Y0CpvERArswAJ9nxg+S/YK7ehP5XVyo8UoVIVCQWQCgiAuw lF9MUQmusZm9BxguAHdydvw= =XDmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2995962.RvZ4sFUCD8--