From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 02:44:32 2003 Return-Path: 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 D735E16A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 02:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.uk.alink.co.za (mail.alink.co.za [213.253.1.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C0043F75 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 02:44:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from george@alink.co.za) Received: from [195.8.70.199] (helo=spoem) by mail.uk.alink.co.za with smtp (Exim 3.36 #5) id 19uqfF-000HRT-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:44:29 +0100 Message-ID: <001301c372c9$77e70e50$c74608c3@spoem> From: "George Barnett" To: Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:46:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: preferred raid controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:44:33 -0000 Hi, I'm building a syslog server with some regular scsi disk shelves hanging off the back and I'm looking for a recommenedation on a raid controller. I currently have a (old) dpt smartcache iv, but it doesn't seem to have much in the way of management tools (I found it in a cupboard somewhere :). I dont need speed, but I'm after reliability and control (monitoring tools would be great too). What are the current favourites out there? (please cc me as I'm not subscribed) Many thanks, george -- George Barnett, Scsa Reality Engineer eml: george@alink.co.za gsm: +44 778 884 7205 www: www.alink.co.za Broad-mindedness, n.: The result of flattening high-mindedness out.