From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 18 12:58:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tabby.kudra.com (gw.kudra.com [199.6.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC34B37B424 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from robert@localhost) by tabby.kudra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA42547; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:57:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:57:48 -0400 From: Robert Sexton To: Jonathan Laventhol Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine Message-ID: <20000818155748.A42398@tabby.kudra.com> References: <399D6F59.B8E44A53@imagination.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <399D6F59.B8E44A53@imagination.com>; from Jonathan Laventhol on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:16:09PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:16:09PM +0100, Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > Hello Folks -- > > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more? > Or even 200 Gbyte? Joe Greco did this for a news machine last year. He used several wide SCSI controllers, and a bunch of 36G drives, if I recall correctly. > I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of > IDE drives? (How many can you have?) Or SCSI? (Again, > how many can you have?). Good, Fast, or Cheap. Pick any two :-) I'd suggest two Symbios based LVD SCSI Cards. Up to 14 drives per chain, with very reasonable cabling limitations. Can IDE drives release the bus during seeks? Historically thats been the big advantage of SCSI: Two IDE drives are no faster than one IDE drive, while SCSI scales in performance. -- Robert Sexton - robert@kudra.com, Cincinnati OH, USA Anarchy: It's not the Law, It's just a good Idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message