From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Nov 19 21:53:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA11230 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:53:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA11221 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@tri-lakes.net) Received: from [207.3.81.154] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id xa346733 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:55:25 -0600 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:35:50 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Advice on new SCSI hardware Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm finally looking into getting some REAL drives on this beast of mine (SCSI as opposed to IDE), and have considered several options. The card I am most likely going to use is the Tekram DC-390F (i believe that is the Ultra Wide card), and am debating which drives to go with it. The cheapeast I have seen so far were from Corporate Systems (www.corpsys.com), the 2.1GB Seagate 32430WD (which they tag as just Wide-SCSI), and the 4.3GB Micropolis 3243W (which they call a Ultra-Wide SCSI3 drive.. the model number is suspiciously close to the Seagate's. Typo?). I've heard some people really complain about the Micropolis drives, so I thought I'd see if these were some of the particular buggers that people hated so much. I plan on buying several of these drives and using CCD with them (striped). Which, by the way, brings up another question - For the average Power User, (just lots of 'make world's and playing around), what seems to be the best stripe size? Also... Concerning the swap area (which will be on these drives), which is better: setting the drives to be entirely consumed by the ccd partitions and putting the swap within the virtual ccd, or just leave some free space on each drive outside of the ccd and swap from there? (I'm thinking the latter is the best option, but I figured I should ask.) --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best operating system on the planet. ---- (http://www.freebsd.org)