Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:58:42 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: remy@synx.com Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Huge SCSI configs Message-ID: <199904130358.UAA01696@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:04:31 %2B0200." <199904121804.UAA30722@rt2.synx.com>
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> I am looking for advices about building a fearly huge SCSI config. > > The config would be : > > - 4 SCSI chains (2x3950U2W planned) > - 12 18.2 GB per chain (48 totals disks) > - one Gigabit ethernet link > - SMP (Quad-Xeon or Bi-P2) > > Advices wanted (do/don't). Depending on how you plan to organise the disks, you might want to look at using some external RAID controllers to cluster the disks (and provide some redundancy in the event of failure). Apart from that, it ought to work OK. SMP may or may not help you, depending on the application. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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