From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 23 07:39:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA14136 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:39:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA14022 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 07:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.202.16] by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.651 #18) id 0xDW6S-0007C0-00; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:38:16 +0100 Received: (from ip@localhost) by albatross.mcc.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.4) id PAA01101 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:38:16 +0100 (BST) From: Ian Pallfreeman Message-Id: <199709231438.PAA01101@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: anyone care to recommend a RAID 5 box? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 15:38:15 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: ip@mcc.ac.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. :-(