From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 21 22:19:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA25886 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:19:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.siscom.net (mail.siscom.net [206.244.171.30] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA25870 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:19:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from radams@siscom.net) Received: from mp (wize1@mp.siscom.net [209.251.2.40]) by mail.siscom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA09221; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:36:45 -0500 Message-ID: <038501be45b7$45a7a920$2802fbd1@mp.siscom.net> From: "Robert Adams" To: Cc: Subject: Building new mail system Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:28:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, We're putting together a new box to handle mail.. thought I would pick your brains a little for advice. Hopefully someone has done this already. We are planning on using 4x9gig Cheetahs in a RAID 0+1 configuration.. Currently we are looking at two RAID-RAID controllers. 1) Mylex 2 CHANNEL RAID W-U SCSI DACSXI 2) CMD CRD-5440 or CRD-5500's Few questions.. can anyone recommend one of the above controllers over the other? If so, for what reasons. Does the RAID 0+1 seem like the way to go? Or should we go with something like RAID 5? The reason we aren't going with something like the DPT controllers is that you have to boot to DOS to fix a failure... which isn't good imho. Any other controller/setup recommendations are welcome.. TIA, Jason --- Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. Phone: 888-4-SISCOM 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message