Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:04:06 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Adam <ajwoodbe@oakland.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Suggestions for a good hard drive in our FreeBSD ftp server... Message-ID: <20000222160406.E21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLEIJALJKACDMNFLJEEBCCBAA.ajwoodbe@oakland.edu>; from ajwoodbe@oakland.edu on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 06:27:08PM -0500 References: <NDBBLEIJALJKACDMNFLJEEBCCBAA.ajwoodbe@oakland.edu>
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* Adam <ajwoodbe@oakland.edu> [000222 15:57] wrote: > I'm hoping someone could offer some advice as to what brand/model of hard > drive would be good for a FreeBSD web server serving at most 100 users (not > all transfering at the same time of course). Our FTP server is a > custom-built Pentium-II 400MHz system with 128MB RAM, an Intel EtherExpress > Pro 100+ NIC operating at 100Mb/s full-duplex, a 9 GIG Western Digital > Caviar HDD, and an Acer motherboard. The plan is to add an additional 20 > GIGs of space at the very least while keeping the price down. Initially I > planned on purchasing 1 or 2 Western Digital Expert 27.3 GIG hard drives > (7200 rpm, Ultra-ATA 66, etc.) and dedicating the new drive(s) as storage > space for the uploaded files. The data that will be stored on this server > is CAD data. My main concern is whether or not the hard drive will be the > bottle neck during heavy loads. Would I be all right with the WD Expert HDD > I mentioned above or should I purchase a SCSI controller and SCSI hard > drive? This server may also be serving a static web page with some dynamic > content in the near future. Thanks for the help. IDE just isn't a viable solution for highly concurrant access unless configured in a very distributed IDE raid system. I'd spend the extra money and go scsi, the price may be somewhat painful, but the performance is worth it. Also, IDE drives tend to get you into a company's 'desktop user' support queue if you call for support and you're more likely to be taken serious if you call in about a scsi drive. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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