From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 8:59: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from super-g.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758DA156E6; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 08:58:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: by super-g.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0B137B91C; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:57:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.com (Postfix) with SMTP id EF02EB91B; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:57:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:57:56 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Stuart Henderson , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: External RAID boxes (was Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ?) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990809164854.01c08750@staff.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote: > What I am not clear on from glancing at the mylex site is that they seem to > be cards only and cards with boxes ? Am I right in thinking that you > supply the case ? From the .pdf file Yes, and beyond that there is a model that is simply a "card" for OEM people putting together their own box. We've been buying the one that is in a 5 1/4" full-height drive format. Their webpages generally suck and are out of date. You probably want the DAC-960-SXI-H. > Do you save substantially 'putting it together' yourself ? Probably. We've been putting these inside a few machines (not an external box) for folks who wanted a "RAID solution". It's fast, very fast. Makes the DPT look like a real crawl. We're basically using it more for protection than anything else, but we didn't want to end up with something slower than straight drives off a UW controller. > What sort of price have people paid (in USD), and who is generally a good > outlet to buy from ? I think we paid about $2450 for the SXI-H w/32MB cache. You can probably do better elsewhere, check buy.com or Ingram (if you are or are friendly with a reseller). So an example array came out like so: $2450 SXI-H $1680 6*9GB IBM 34560's $4130 Add a box and you're ready to go... Charles > Thanks for any input anyone can provide on this topic. > > ---Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 > Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net > Sentex Communications www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message