From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 07:57:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01426 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 07:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from liquid.tpb.net (drum-n-bass.party-animals.com [194.134.94.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01409 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 07:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from niels@bakker.net) Received: from localhost (niels@localhost) by liquid.tpb.net (8.9.1a/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id QAA30247; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:57:02 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:57:02 +0100 (CET) From: N To: Dan Swartzendruber cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981215231329.00966ae0@mail.kersur.net> Message-ID: <981216165425.29668B-100000@liquid.tpb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [..] > about 20 drives. Will FreeBSD handle this? Does anyone here have any > experience that this level of disk-farm? I have a box with 20 disks, split over four controllers (yes, you guessed it: a news server). Running 3.0-CURRENT from somewhere last month. Very happy with FreeBSD, very unhappy with INN. I think you'd be better off with 4 GB disks - less latency when you have to do a *lot* of seeks (like you have to for a news swerver), but that's more a question for news.software.nntp. -- Niels. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message