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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:53:13 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jeremy Allen <jallen@gdev.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Raid Support
Message-ID:  <19990928115313.F94452@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <000b01bf0952$8c8a37e0$9001a8c0@jallen.alltel.net>; from Jeremy Allen on Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:41:08PM -0400
References:  <000b01bf0952$8c8a37e0$9001a8c0@jallen.alltel.net>

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On Monday, 27 September 1999 at 21:41:08 -0400, Jeremy Allen wrote:
>     Hello FreeBSD People,
>
> I really want to include FreeBSD in my hosting services I am
> planning to offer to my clients.  The only thing I have a question
> about is FreeBSD's Raid support. If it is possible can you tell me
> what hardware is the best? I really need a good and solid Raid
> Solution for some SCSI Drives. I am looking at needing about 100
> Gigabytes of storage.  If you could tell me what Level's of RAID I
> can get support for I would be overwhelmingly Happy.

The only hardware RAID arrays supported by 3.3 are the DPT SmartRaid
III and IV.  They're old and slow; you're better off with Vinum
(software RAID), as
http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/vinum.html indicates.

We've just added support for the Mylex controllers in -CURRENT.  Their
performance is significantly higher, but we haven't any hard figures
at the moment.  Also, you shouldn't use this driver yet for production
work.

Greg
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