From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 16 12:50:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02764 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02758 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-gw.dalsys.com (i-gw.dalsys.com [207.42.153.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA20152 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by i-gw.dalsys.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA01602 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:48:23 -0500 Received: from future.dsc.dalsys.com(199.170.161.3) by i-gw.dalsys.com via smap (V1.3) id sma001599; Mon Sep 16 14:48:14 1996 Received: from richards.dsc.dalsys.com by future.dsc.dalsys.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/8.6.12) id AA49823; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:26:45 -0500 Message-Id: <323DC627.756B@herald.net> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:27:03 -0700 From: Richard Stanford Reply-To: richards@herald.net Organization: Herald Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: INN drive configuration Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm currently setting up a dedicated news machine running 2.1.5-R, and have a quick question to some of the other people here: For every 4GB of data storage on the box, would you recommend 1 4GB 7200 RPM drive (Barracuda) or 2 2GB 5400 RPM drives (Hawk)? I realize that I should spread the data between as many disks as possible, and also make sure that those disks are as fast as possible, and would like to hear opinions as to which factor is more important. This machine will have 1 (maybe 2) full-ish incoming feeds, and feed several shell accounts on one machine along with dialup users. If it makes a difference. I'm also on a bit of a budget setting it up, which is why I've identified my $/GB limit and am now looking at the choices within that constraint. Power, cooling, etc are not going to be issues. TIA! -Richard