From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 26 11:48:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from amber.eaznet.com (amber.eaznet.com [216.19.20.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756A114BDC for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:48:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eddie@eaznet.com) Received: from eaznet.com (admin.eaznet.com [216.19.20.16]) by amber.eaznet.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA22553; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:54:14 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <379CAD24.9285F233@eaznet.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:47:01 -0700 From: Eddie - EAZNet Internet Services Reply-To: eddie@eaznet.com Organization: EAZNet Internet Services, Safford, AZ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phillip Salzman Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID controllers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Phillip, In talking with other SkyCache users, and myself included, it's collective opinion that RAID-5 doesn't help in a Squid Proxy setup. The # of drives and channels has much more of an effect than RAID does. In my opinion, you should probably spend more money on drives and channels than using RAID. my $.02, Eddie Phillip Salzman wrote: > Hello, > > I'm planning on deploying a massive squid cache in combination with > the SkyCache satellite downlink. For this we decided that a RAID-5 > system would be almost completely necessary. > > After looking at the DPT SmartRAID IV controller, we were going to > purchase the PM3334UDW (low voltage differential). Oddly enough, DPT > is no longer offering this controller. They seem to still have the > regular PM3334UW, and the newer SmartRAID V. > > Does anyone know of a place that may still have the PM3334UDW in stock, > or know the current status of the drivers for the SmartRAID V? I'd > really really hate to be forced to install the alternative on the squid > cache, Redtie, because of support reasons. > > Thanks in advance! > > --- > Phillip Salzman > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Eddie Fry eddie@eaznet.com EAZNet Internet Services 220 West 7th Street Safford, AZ 85546 (520) 348-0292 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message