Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:19:31 -0800 From: Samuel Clements <sclements@linkline.com> To: Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New parts for new PC (need help - little knowledge of hardware) Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031120091300.036e2008@junior.loungenet.org> In-Reply-To: <20031120062655.060c4d7b.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> References: <200311190158.hAJ1wNOi000727@mist.nodomain> <20031119035315.61bbe274.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <xzp1xs3mlyn.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20031120062655.060c4d7b.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net>
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There are some really good RAID Primers you can read up on, like this one from Intel: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/raid_info.htm or this one from LSI: http://www.lsilogic.com/products/stor_prod/raid/backgrounder1.html or this one from Adaptec: http://graphics.adaptec.com/pdfs/ACSP_RAID_Ch4.pdf My $.02 worth is the Intel and Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers seem to work really well for us, but I don't have much experience in the IDE RAID realm yet with the exception of the Adaptec/Intel SATA RAID built into the ICH5R on the new S875WP1 server board that isn't yet supported under FreeBSD (might want to stay away from that one for now)... Probably something from Promise will suit you fine. At the low end, if it works, theres not going to be a lot of difference among controllers. -Sam At 04:26 AM 11/20/2003, Bryan Cassidy wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >I've got EVERYTHING picked out BUT the harddrive and controller card for >the hard drive. Do you have any recommendations (seagate model #????) on >the hard drive and/or controller card for a IDE HD? I'm kinda confused. >I see people talking about RAID but not really sure what it is and what >it does? Maybe you could explain a little to me? > >On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:24:32 +0100 >des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote: > > > Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> writes: > > > Hard drive: > > > SEAGATE SCSI 36.0GB 10000RPM, MODEL# ST336607LW -X10 > > > > Don't bother with SCSI. It's definitely faster than IDE, but it's not > > worth the price for a desktop system. You'll probably be a lot > > happier running a RAID0 over two 120GB IDE drives (provided your > > motherboard has a RAID BIOS, or you buy a dual-channel PCI RAID > > adapter such as the Promise TX2000) > > > > DES > > -- > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) > >iD8DBQE/vLMPjnOL7dYm/EQRApPIAKDuo08pkX7HPALsS6Pt7eYnEq2B8gCg7nHS >xFAU1quhwz1SpSAWO7cN9As= >=jnnu >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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