Date: 07 Dec 2001 14:51:05 -0600 From: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) To: "Joe White" <joe@edgehosting.com> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IDE RAID Message-ID: <87g06m4uva.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> In-Reply-To: <005601c17f1c$485a64e0$0a800a0a@edgehosting.com> ("Joe White"'s message of "Fri, 7 Dec 2001 07:39:53 -0500") References: <005601c17f1c$485a64e0$0a800a0a@edgehosting.com>
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Joe> I'm looking for an IDE RAID card that can support RAID 1 or 5 Joe> (probably will only be just 1) and ATA 100. Any suggestions? Has Joe> anyone had any experience/luck with these kinda cards? Is there Joe> an additional Kernel drive I will need to compile to get it to Joe> work correctly? Is it possible that it can notify me of problems Joe> if one of the drives are bad or are dying? Joe> This will be a MAIL/DNS/WEB/FTP/MySQL Server, running a couple of Joe> 40g 7200rpm WD drives. We have a bunch of the 3ware controllers, and they all work great. We have some 2 drive mirrors of small drives, and now 3 systems with four 75 GB drives in a RAID 1+0 config. I've never used RAID 5 on a 3ware controller, I hear it isn't terribly speedy. But with the cost of IDE disks, we just add disks. :) The only gotcha is sizing the powersupply to handle the drives. There have been a number of reported problems with 8 IDE drives in a single case. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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