Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:02:20 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for scsi disk array? Message-ID: <4450B2CC.1@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060426215903.GB1063@egr.msu.edu> References: <20060426215903.GB1063@egr.msu.edu>
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Adam McDougall wrote: > I am setting up two 1U servers to be FreeBSD Postgres servers. > I want to use a 3U SCSI disk array attached to each one for the PG data. > I have 73G hitachi disks already that I want to use to populate 8 > out of 16 slots of each of two arrays. Redundant 120v power supplies > are important, hot swappable would definitely be nice, swappable > redundant fans would probably be good. I don't really need environmental > monitoring, and I will raid each array using a PCI card (lsi logic) in > each server. > > Does anyone have any product/company recommendations, or past experience with a > suitable product or company that hopefully still exists? Any warnings > or bad experiences with any products out there? I should purchase soon > and need to work on the product research. Thanks. I highly recommend the arrays from ACNC: http://www.acnc.com We have over 20 of them in use. They have triple redundant hot swappable power supplies too. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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