From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 2:16:35 2003 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 8344E37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 02:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from foem.leiden.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658CA43F75 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 02:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from foem (foem [10.11.0.2]) by foem.leiden.webweaving.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2KAGULG003973; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:16:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:16:30 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-X-Sender: dirkx@foem.leiden.webweaving.org To: Maarten de Vries Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Three Terabyte In-Reply-To: <003f01c2ee7f$68366dd0$1001a8c0@jennie> Message-ID: <20030320111436.N74106-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Let's say I need 3Tb of cheap storage (preferably IDE disks) and I want it > controlled by a FreeBSD system; how (if at all possible) would I do set that > up in terms of hard- and software? Depends on what access patterns you have; is it mostly dormant archiving; or lots of access, concurrent, sequential ? How safe does the data need to be; and against what (hardware failure, accidental rm -rf). But check out the 3ware RAID card; I've had great luck with building NFS servers with 8 or 16 disks as fairly dormant/archival style storage depots. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message