From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 12:02:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: scsi@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D6C16A404 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:02:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3080C43D5D for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:02:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3RC2WQ1026635; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:02:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4450B2CC.1@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:02:20 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam McDougall References: <20060426215903.GB1063@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060426215903.GB1063@egr.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1426/Wed Apr 26 13:03:01 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for scsi disk array? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:02:37 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------