Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:59:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: Maryjane Murrell <mmurrell@CalAcademy.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Raid Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106130954540.1275-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net> In-Reply-To: <3B253A5C.D26813EC@calacademy.org>
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Maryjane Murrell wrote: >I am looking to build a new email server and I was wondering > which Raid controller you would recommend for a system running 4-18 gig > disks.i 3Ware 6800 2 ports. Should be economical. How heavily used will this mail server be? What is the budget? The 3Ware controller is IDE so if it will heavily used then maybe you may want to consider SCSI, but that will jump the price considerably. >pIII-9XX w/1gig ram and the os will be freebsd 4.2or 4.3. With that much memory I would think you should be fine even with IDE drives. Regarding the drives.. If you go with IDE maybe an IBM GXP60. Check www.storagereview.com for info/comparisons on drives. If you need top performance and the money is there then check the Seagate 15K rpm drive. Except for RAM disk and the upcoming "second generation 15K rpm drives", the current Seagate 15K rpm drive is the fastest drive out (at least at reasonable prices). Regarding the OS you should go with 4.3 and update it to stable. Good luck. I have a mail server coming up in the near future myself. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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