From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 22:58:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inc.net (mailhost.inc.net [204.95.160.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770E515670 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:58:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@inc.net) Received: from inc.net (ess.phreak.net [207.250.97.69]) by inc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA00385; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:58:07 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <38743CEB.E210FB5@inc.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:57:47 -0600 From: Steve Kaczkowski Organization: Time Warner Telecom Internet & Data Division X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,zh,zh-CN,zh-TW,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Cc: dannyman , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reccomend RAID for FreeBSD + Cyrus References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > > > Checkout the Mylex DAC960SX External SCSI to SCSI RAID controller. > ... > > RAID functions are being handled by the RAID controller there isn't any > > performance issues > > to worry about, it's just pure redundancy and speed... > > > > Very slick stuff.. > > It is also about as old as the hills, and has no Ultra2 support. > Ultra2 also gives you longer cable lengths (LVD), which are very important > for external RAID setups, without the pain of sourcing differentional > drives. Basically every SCSI disk made these days is Ultra2. > > A CRD or Infortend controller will probably be better. The new > Infortrend Sentinel series with 64bit PowerPC processors look very > interesting. > Yeah, one downside of the Mylex, though they do work very well, more speed is always helpful.. Thanks for the tip on the Infortend stuff, I haven't heard of them before, looks like real nice stuff... Guess that'll be in my NEXT News upgrade! :) -- Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom IDD steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message