From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 5:24:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0348737B4C5 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 05:24:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.6.102.200] (helo=home) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #83) id 13psRl-0002Ey-00; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:24:26 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20001029132402.01abcd68@mail.btinternet.com> X-Sender: p.allsopp@mail.btinternet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:24:02 +0000 To: Agent Drek From: Phil Allsopp Subject: Re: RAID on the cheap Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <39FC2202.3FE08941@smashpow.net> References: <200010290700.BAA51057@cs28120-135.houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:11 29/10/2000 -0500, you wrote: >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. >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. NFS should be fine. re: Raid controller, a company called iwill has recently brought out an IDE ATA100 4 disk Raid controller card. Real easy to install as it is all on a card. Just plug in and go. I believe that there are monitoring tools provided for most O/S's Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message