From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 8:16:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8510B37B424 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 08:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcC-018.sub-c.lee.net [208.205.126.18]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA20328; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:16:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3AFAB0C1.86A6C704@journalstar.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:16:18 -0500 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc W Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Reasonably priced RAID 1 in a 1U server? References: <200105100648.XAA89153@akira.lanfear.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just built a server using the Adaptec 2100s, and it was butt-simple to get going. I think you can get the card for about $430US. It requires SCSI hard drives. I'm assuming in 1U cases the cards are installed horizontally so space isn't and issue... So all in all it will probably cost you about a grand for the card and two drives. The remote monitoring stuff is Linux-centric, so I haven't really bothered trying to make it work in FreeBSD. The guy where I host it is supposed to call me if the evil drive-fail light comes on. :-) I'm sure there are other cards that also work well with FreeBSD but the 2100s is the only one I've had experience with. Marc W wrote: > > hello! > > in the near future, i'm going to need to put together a 1U server > for running a FreeBSD server system. One of the things I would like it > to have a RAID 1 support, set up in such a way that if a disk fails, > the system can keep running with the other. Ideally, the fix for a bad > disk would simply be to put in another disk and reboot and be back. My > main goal is complete duplication of the data, and as simple a > replacement as possible. > > The question is: just what fits in a 1U server -- I'm a little new > to these, and don't want to buy a controller that's not going to work > when i get the computer. > > Any suggestions for what I might want to set up here? any > recommendations for 1U servers that I might want to consider for > maximal FreeBSD compatibility also?? > > thanks! > > marc. > > Marc W, San Francisco, CA > Kiltdown -- a free email client for X > www.kiltdown.org -- it's what's underneath that counts. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message