From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 21 9:20:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sco.COM (scol.london.sco.COM [150.126.1.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45FD737B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:20:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aris@sco.COM) Received: from severn.london.sco.COM(150.126.20.2), claiming to be "severn.sco.com" via SMTP by scol.london.sco.COM, id smtpdBAAa0033H; Thu Jun 21 17:19:25 2001 Received: from uradoos.london.sco.com by severn.sco.com with smtp id aa25652 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:19:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3B321E82.9DD3CD84@sco.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:19:14 +0100 From: Aris Stathakis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD Caldera Systems OpenLinux [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID/vinum options (mail server) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Forrest W. Christian" wrote: > > I'm needing to find a RAID solution for our mail server. > > Mainly I'm looking for experiences good and bad with different options. > Has anyone had any success with the various inexpensive EIDE raid controllers available? Some are built into motherboards - others are add-in cards like the KW-571H for which there are Linux drivers. This may be an alternative if it works - RAID 1/mirror for root filesystem with IDE disks, and Vinum/RAID5 with SCSI disks for data. Aris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message