Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:35:13 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <20010207153513.U26076@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0102071529420.29215-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>; from dphoenix@bravenet.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:30:05PM -0800 References: <20010207150843.R26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSO.4.21.0102071529420.29215-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>
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* Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com> [010207 15:30] wrote: > > > Get a hardware raid card, you can even get a bootable IDE RAID, > > although hotswap scsi means less downtime. > > > > For a project this big you're really being pretty thrifty with the > > hardware allocated to it. The time you save hacking on the system > > to fix performance problems could be addressed much quicker by > > buying somewhat more robust hardware, once that's addressed you > > can move on to the next project. > > > > IDE raid (striping) won't cost more than three to five hundred > > dollars including the disks you need. > > > > Sounds reasonable...do you have a url to a trustable supplier? We use BSDi/telenet and they're pretty good: http://hardware.bsdi.com/cgi-bin/telenet.storefront Just make sure you specify that you want the rootfs on the RAID as well. I've heard ASA Computers is pretty good but haven't bought anything from them yet: http://www.asacomputers.com/new/pub/html/index.html -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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