From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 21:40:07 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 2A4CB16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:40:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D6943D1D for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:40:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58LdmFB025472; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:39:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j58LdmUS025467; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:39:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:39:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: John Pettitt In-Reply-To: <42A73E28.7060601@cloudview.com> Message-ID: <20050608163903.E23444@mail.goinet.com> References: <42A73E28.7060601@cloudview.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 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 21:40:07 -0000 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" >