From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 7 12:51:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from agena.meridian-enviro.com (thunder.meridian-enviro.com [207.109.234.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0ABD37B419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from delta.meridian-enviro.com (delta.meridian-enviro.com [10.10.10.43]) by agena.meridian-enviro.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id fB7Kp5C89775; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:51:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rand@meridian-enviro.com) Received: (from rand@localhost) by delta.meridian-enviro.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB7Kp5r81340; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:51:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rand@meridian-enviro.com) X-Authentication-Warning: delta.meridian-enviro.com: rand set sender to rand@meridian-enviro.com using -f To: "Joe White" Cc: Subject: Re: IDE RAID References: <005601c17f1c$485a64e0$0a800a0a@edgehosting.com> From: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) Date: 07 Dec 2001 14:51:05 -0600 In-Reply-To: <005601c17f1c$485a64e0$0a800a0a@edgehosting.com> ("Joe White"'s message of "Fri, 7 Dec 2001 07:39:53 -0500") Message-ID: <87g06m4uva.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 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