From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 6 8:25:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inc.net (mailhost.inc.net [204.95.160.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44DC154B9 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@inc.net) Received: from inc.net (niki.noc.inc.net [204.95.194.201]) by inc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA10124; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 10:25:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3874C1D7.4728923C@inc.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:24:55 -0600 From: Steve Kaczkowski Organization: Time Warner Telecom IDD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Vermillion Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reccomend RAID for FreeBSD + Cyrus References: <38743CEB.E210FB5@inc.net> <20000106065352.A5182@bilver.magicnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Vermillion wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:57:47AM -0600, Thus Spake Steve Kaczkowski: > > Tom wrote: > > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > > > > A CRD or Infortend controller will probably be better. The new > > > Infortrend Sentinel series with 64bit PowerPC processors look very > > > interesting. > > > Yeah, one downside of the Mylex, though they do work very well, more > > speed is always helpful.. > > Are you saying the PowerPC processor is the downside? > > Why is that? Nono, the Mylex controllers are a little older technology and don't support Ultra2 LVD which is why I said it's a downside of them. The Infortend controllers are PPC based, support the latest interfaces and look all around cool, although I didn't know about them until Yesterday.. I see upgrades in my future.. :) -- Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom IDD steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message