From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 18 11:58:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.cb21.co.jp (ns1.cb21.co.jp [203.140.149.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19ABC37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 55027 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2001 04:58:29 +0900 Received: from localhost.cb21.co.jp (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.cb21.co.jp with SMTP; 19 Jan 2001 04:58:29 +0900 To: mike@sentex.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID configuration for a mail server (1 or 5) From: Sys Admin In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010117193231.03731950@marble.sentex.net> References: <4.2.2.20010117193231.03731950@marble.sentex.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 19.34 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010119045829R.admin@cb21.co.jp> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:58:29 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 25 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From Mike Tancsa ... > Questions is more appropriate. Also, you may want to scan through the I really had a difficulty in decideing which list is the most appropriate. scsi, hardware all came to mind since the question is not specific to either of the lists , I thought stable or isp would be better as I thought people runing real stable systems must be on those lists! > archives, as questions like this have been asked and answered > before. www.dejanews.com is your friend and Oracle! This indeed is true. A search for "Raid Mail Server" resulted in 7000 odd responses! > For speed, reliability and cost, have a look at the 4port 3ware card > (www.3ware.com) in RAID 10 config. Two RAID0 sets mirrored together. Get > yourself some inexpensive drawers ( eg > http://www.startech.com/ststore/ItemDetail.cfm?Product_ID=IDE66BASIC) and Thanks for the info. I will have a look. Tad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message