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From: Ben Black <black@MR.Net>
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To: bobster@primenet.com, shovey@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: Adaptec2940UW vs. BusLogicBT-958 (opinions?)
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> 
> Ive been watching this thread -  Im one of those people in need of many 
> fast drives and am seeking a better solution that a regular pci 2940 and 
> regular scsi-2 drives.  They+freebsd just dont do it thruput wise for a 
> very full news server.  I have found hat one gets better thruput if you 
> have 4 2 gig drives than if you have 1 8.  So there is one reason for 
> alot of drives.
> 
yes, lots of drives.  but why on the same controller?  we always use at least 2 
scsi controllers in our news servers.  redundancy for fault tolerance as well as 
from parallelism in request processing.


Ben
black@mr.net