From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 19 11:16:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns.tcworks.net (ns.tcworks.net [216.61.218.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787891520C for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:16:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Received: from tcworks.net (xcess@likely.to.rageout.org [216.61.218.6]) by ns.tcworks.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA70366 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:19:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ccook@tcworks.net) Message-ID: <37936BCE.8A09144A@tcworks.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:17:50 -0500 From: Chris Cook X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID-controller / Software References: <3793506E.55C0E1AE@zkom.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Hartung wrote: > Can anybody tell me which RAID-controller is the best and cheapest one > to implement RAID-1 under FreeBSD 3.x. What about the storage management > software? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Michael Hartung Unless you absolutely had to use a hardware RAID controller, I would recommend using The Vinum Volume Manager - http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. I've found it has little resource overhead, and is comparable in speed to a hardware based controller. The setup and configuration is not that difficult and is worth the money you spend! Good luck. -- Chris Cook The Computer Works http://www.tcworks.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message