Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 21:38:21 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Kim J. Brand" <kim@simple-mail.com> Subject: Re: RAID 1 Message-ID: <02cb01bf6f9b$c5c68900$0200000a@danco.home>
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>i'm trying to build a small server for a client moving up from a WIN95 server. > >all the offerings i've found on FreeBSD vendor sites are for way too much >system. this system only has to run samba and act like a dumb file server. > >the only thing that makes this the least bit unusual is that its for a >cemetery and the reliability must be VERY HIGH. therefore i'm interested >in using RAID 1. <snip> >in addition, (if you're still reading ;)) i'd like to put some kind of >CD-RW on this package for making backups. the cost of a CD is small >relative to the security of knowing that if the system melts down they can >take the CD to any WIN95 desktop and keep working until i get them a new >machine. For not much money, I took our P166 Win95 server and made it a FreeBSD powerhouse by buying a second IDE drive and an ARCO DupliDisk RAID-1 controller (about $250) (see http://www.arcoide.com/). Neat thing about the DupliDisk is that it's completely transparent to the OS; no drivers or anything. I also put a HP 7200 ATAPI CD-RW drive in, and it works like a charm! --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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