From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 18:51:23 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 D19F416A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:51:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (skipjack.no-such-agency.net [64.142.114.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A3A43D1D for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:51:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2266F34DA11 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.120] (blackhole.no-such-agency.net [64.142.103.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E811134D435 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42A73E28.7060601@cloudview.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:51:20 -0700 From: John Pettitt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: by skipjack Subject: Time for a new SATA raid server ... 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: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:51:23 -0000 I'm about to consign my old cobbled together file server and it's collection of FireWire drives to that place servers go to die. I need to build a file server with up to 2 TB of capacity - most of this storage will be near-line storage for video and photo archives and so will not have high performance needs. It will need to be highly reliable. My current thought is to go with a 3ware based SATA raid solution using 300 or 400gb sata drives (7 x 400's with 6 in a raid 5 array with a hot spare). Questions: does anybody on the list have such a box running in production? Any issues I need to watch for? Does anybody build these pre-configured? What other raid controllers should I consider? (must have real FreeBSD support) John