From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 10 21:55: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7BE37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:55:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from ruminary.org (chiku.ruminary.org [216.218.185.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9B243F75 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:54:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@ruminary.org) Received: by ruminary.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 62CFD22E19; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:54:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:54:58 -0800 From: clark shishido To: Troy Settle Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Storage Reccomendations (3Ware vs Adaptec vs ....) Message-ID: <20030311055458.GA79510@ruminary.org> References: <002201c2e703$cabdcdf0$aa8ffea9@abyss> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002201c2e703$cabdcdf0$aa8ffea9@abyss> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:51:37AM -0500, Troy Settle wrote: > > The question of the day, is do I build a 3ware RAID5 solution (with like > 7*40GB drives of RAID5 and a hot spare), or do I stick with SCSI with > something like a Supermicro server > (http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SuperServer6021H.htm) > with an Adaptec U160 0-channel RAID controller and 5*36GB and a hot > spare. > > > Comments? > I would stick with IDE RAIDs with a SCSI host interface. Call me conservative, but I prefer not having to rely on *any* driver for my storage systems. I looked at 3ware and their switching technology looks enticing but I ended up comparing an Infortrend, IFT-6300, a Promise, UltraTrak 8000, and a DynamicNetworkFactory, Datamax 14000. I currently have 2 Datamax units installed and I'm happy with their performance so far. --clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message