From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 5:11:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smashpow.net (H183.C80.tor.velocet.net [216.126.80.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975AD37B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 05:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smashpow.net(zupa.smashpow.net[192.168.24.2]) (1735 bytes) by smashpow.net via smail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:11:22 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jul-5) Message-ID: <39FC2202.3FE08941@smashpow.net> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:11:30 -0500 From: Agent Drek Organization: Smash and Pow Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ztomasic@houston.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID on the cheap References: <200010290700.BAA51057@cs28120-135.houston.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zdenko Tomasic wrote: > > We got SGI O2 which needs a bit of storage attached, so I thought of > using PC running FBSD with vinum and nfs as a cheap RAID box. > Has anybody tried that or similar set up already? > > I guess raid 5 with 3 80GB IDE disks, each possibly on its own > controller and a 20GB IDE disk for root and more system oriented stuff > (nonvinum) will do. Are there any NFS issues between SGI and FBSD? > gotchas? I have used FreeBSD/vinum as an NFS server for IRIX for some time now and have had no problems. I worry less now then when I had O200's doing the job. > > I would normally prefer scsi setup which would be better, but cost is > the issue here. What would be recommended as an adequate CPU? PIII-733? > I use the slowest CPU with the fastest bus I can find ... PII450 right now. I think IDE drives are only ok if you have a seperate controller for each drive ... search the archives for more about that. Don't cheap out on the NIC either. -- Derek Marshall Smash and Pow Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.smashpow.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message