Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:38:15 +0100 (BST) From: Ian Pallfreeman <ip@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: anyone care to recommend a RAID 5 box? Message-ID: <199709231438.PAA01101@albatross.mcc.ac.uk>
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My management have decided that they want a RAID 5 box with about 20Gb of
usable space on it, rather than buying a backup device.
I have about $11K to spend on the complete box (P-II 266 + 128Mb), so I'm
looking for a RAID 5 box which will work with 2.2 for less than $8K, I guess.
The 20Gb or so will be used for POP/IMAP mailboxes and home directories, so
performance isn't really that much of an issue. Personally I'd just buy a
bunch of narrow SCSIs and an Exabyte.
Any suggestions, please? The only solution I've found is something for about
$9K which is probably overkill, and doesn't leave me with much spare change
for more useful things. :-)
TIA,
Ian.
--
Network Unit, SNOT Team, Manchester Computing, The University, Manchester, UK.
mail: ip@mcc.ac.uk | phone: +44-161-275-6006 | fax: +44-161-275-6040
Where once we had dragons to slay, now we just sacrifice chickens.
28,000 users, 155Mb/s networking, and a 486. :-(
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