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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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