Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:39:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@goinet.com> To: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time for a new SATA raid server ... Message-ID: <20050608163903.E23444@mail.goinet.com> In-Reply-To: <42A73E28.7060601@cloudview.com> References: <42A73E28.7060601@cloudview.com>
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Only word of advice: Get ahold of the vendor to make sure they support non-descructive resizing of an array if you intend to add more space later. You've been warned. I didn't find this out on mine until after I purchased the card. On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, John Pettitt wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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