From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 08:00:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02178 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02171 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from druber@mail.kersur.net) Received: from localhost (druber@localhost) by mail.kersur.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA17009; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:00:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:00:39 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Swartzendruber To: N cc: Dan Swartzendruber , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-Reply-To: <981216165425.29668B-100000@liquid.tpb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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