From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 12 02:19:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2DA16A420 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:19:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mattsullivan9@adelphia.net) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F0F43D46 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:19:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mattsullivan9@adelphia.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [68.66.139.230]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060212021943.XAIK18877.mta10.adelphia.net@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:19:43 -0500 Message-ID: <43EE9B3F.7050708@adelphia.net> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:19:43 -0800 From: Matt Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Dell 530 RAID 5 Recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:19:53 -0000 I am considering using FreeBSD 6 on an old Dell Precision Workstation 530 MT. It has Dual Xeon 1.5 GHz CPUs, 4 x Fujitsu AIC-7892A MAJ3182M SCSI HDs, 1 GB RDRAM, Nvidia Elsa Gloria II Pro video, Integrated 3Com NIC, Lynksys Wireless-G USB network adapter, and Integrated Adaptec AIC-7892 SCSI controller. I would like to setup RAID 5. The intended use is in my home network as a personal SOA/J2EE/MySQL development box and family file server. Please review and comment on my assumptions: 1) FreeBSD 6-STABLE has fixed any 5.X SMP issues. 2) I will need an additional RAID controller card. 3) FreeBSD has issues similar to the folks at OpenBSD (my firewall OS) regarding Adaptec - http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html: we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use. * Adaptec AAC-2622, AAC-364, AAC-3642, 2200S, 2410SA, 2610SA, 2810SA, 21610SA I would appreciate some recommendations with a focus on price/performance. Thanks, Matt