From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 19:24:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FFA154B6 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA94982; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:53:14 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:53:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jeremy Allen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raid Support Message-ID: <19990928115313.F94452@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000b01bf0952$8c8a37e0$9001a8c0@jallen.alltel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000b01bf0952$8c8a37e0$9001a8c0@jallen.alltel.net>; from Jeremy Allen on Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:41:08PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message