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Date:      Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:00:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dan Swartzendruber <druber@kersur.net>
To:        N <niels@bakker.net>
Cc:        Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RAID solutions?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216105949.15862A-100000@mail.kersur.net>
In-Reply-To: <981216165425.29668B-100000@liquid.tpb.net>

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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, N wrote:

> [..]
> > 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.

Unhappy how?  Why?
 
> 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.

That is my first choice, but that requires twice the hardware.  I'll have
to run that by management...




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