Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:51:37 -0500 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@psknet.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Mail Storage Reccomendations (3Ware vs Adaptec vs ....) Message-ID: <002201c2e703$cabdcdf0$aa8ffea9@abyss>
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All, My current mail storage server is a C600 w/512MB and ~54GB of RAID5 (amr0, Series 466). The machine (and drives) are coming up on 3 years of age, and I'm ready to replace it. Performance has been acceptable, but not stellar. The question of the day, is do I build a 3ware RAID5 solution (with like 7*40GB drives of RAID5 and a hot spare), or do I stick with SCSI with something like a Supermicro server (http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SuperServer6021H.htm) with an Adaptec U160 0-channel RAID controller and 5*36GB and a hot spare. Besides NFS, this machine will also be running a MySQL server with 1 or 2 very small databases (for storing the vpopmail database). Comments? How well does the Adaptec stuff work? I've used their 2940 controllers, but never their RAID stuff. If I should stay away from Adaptec, what other solutions are reccomended for U160 or U320 RAID5? How well does the 3Ware controller work in terms of hot-swap-ability and automatic rebuilds of a failed drive? Will swapping and/or a rebuild require a reboot of the machine? Also, with a 3Ware controller, am I still tying up the CPU on disk IO? Or does this behave more like a SCSI solution at this point? TIA, -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638 Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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