From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 7:43: 4 2002 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 2EA5637B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunsen.solidcore.dk (bunsen.solidcore.dk [217.116.225.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1403F43E7B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:43:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from laursen@netgroup.dk) Received: from area51 (gw.oxygen.net [217.116.225.2]) (AUTH: LOGIN laursen@solidcore.dk) by bunsen.solidcore.dk with esmtp; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:42:59 +0200 Message-ID: <031001c275eb$7c9948e0$1a01000a@area51> Reply-To: "Lasse Laursen" From: "Lasse Laursen" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which Scsi Raid controller to choose? Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:42:41 +0200 Organization: NetGroup A/S MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 Hi, We are in the process of setting up a large NFS server and we are looking for a reliable disk system to be used by the OS. (The data will be placed on some large Storagetek raids). We have a bunch of 2BGyte SCSI disks that we plan to use for this purpose. My question is: Which SCSI RAID controller should we use? We would prefer RAID 1 with hotspare drives or a RAID 5 solution. The controller should be well supported under FreeBSD. We have used 3Ware controllers in the past but we have had some problems with some of them - one nice feature of them is the ability to remotely control them via a web interface and the controller is able to send out emails if it detects problems with the raid. A similar solution and features would be preferred but it's not essential. Any suggestions for a good RAID SCSI controller is appreciated :) Regards and have a nice weekend all -- Lasse Laursen - Systems Developer NetGroup A/S, St. Kongensgade 40H, DK-1264 København K, Denmark Phone: +45 3370 1526 - Fax: +45 3313 0066 - Web: www.netgroup.dk - We don't surf the net, we make the waves. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message