From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 23:05:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B271316A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:05:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5854C43D41 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:05:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tomasq@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 34so2517367nzf for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:05:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=X5j4jM14IxbVRavk9ETBiou/oWyWlFadSo648nfkNameifwoFDIw0uc93ax8DpsMzYGHkr78766/ukBW0Bv1WiLjoqTWkVJzHd0TZcY55p/LbXBBxu/7IWklXCSQQLLBWsqWmdGwxX/fHbY/UZ2h0JsmbdPvdO578Ro/PHAbbyQ= Received: by 10.36.9.2 with SMTP id 2mr549407nzi; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:05:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.2.19 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:05:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9e46c99e050425160557a21293@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:05:35 -0400 From: Tomas Quintero To: emartinez@crockettint.com In-Reply-To: <20050425224428.DF3D434964@mxc1.crockettint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200504251353484.SM00336@quickstep> <20050425224428.DF3D434964@mxc1.crockettint.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tomas Quintero List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:05:36 -0000 I am almost a bit curious why you didn't go with a Microsoft based solution in a situation like this, where you are needing to provide SMB based file sharing to obviously Windows client desktops. Another solution would be to setup a dedicated NAS of some sort. But I suppose it's too late for all of that. On 4/25/05, Edgar Martinez wrote: > No flaming here, when dealing with projects this big, you cannot be bias > obviously because generally it is someone else's time and money that is o= n > the line. Thanks for the info, I didn't know the whole second array thing= , > that would explain some of the weirdness that I have been seeing. >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: Brent Wiese [mailto:brently@bjwcs.com] > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:54 PM > To: emartinez@crockettint.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions - UPDATE >=20 > > Any one else think they know of a better method?? >=20 > Well, I'm probably going to get totally flamed for this, but since you > asked... >=20 > The better method is to install Windows 2003 Server. Assemble your drives > into 2TB or less RAID5 volumes (btw, you only want 1 per 3Ware card, more= on > that in a second) and use Windows 2003 to span those volumes. It'll show = up > as one drive after that. There is some limit, but I can't remember what i= t > is. Its huge though. >=20 > And in case you didn't know, 3Ware cards are only speed-optimized for the > first array. Subsequent arrays on a card run painfully slow. They won't s= ay > it in any of their lit, but if you corner their support people, they'll > admit it (it obvious if you try it). >=20 > Sorry to mention M$ here, but it sounds like you invested incredible amou= nts > of time, and even Windows 2003 can be cheaper than your time at some poin= t. >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 --=20 -Tomas Quintero