From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 5:31: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net [129.250.36.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB1B37B9D2 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 05:30:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from squirrel@hammis.com) Received: from [129.250.38.64] (helo=dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout3.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 13BzBg-0007XX-00; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:30:56 +0000 Received: from [209.69.36.12] (helo=elizabeth.hammis.com) by dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #4) id 13BzBe-0002Hb-00; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:30:54 +0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000711082540.00aaa140@hammis.com> X-Sender: squirrel@hammis.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:29:59 -0400 To: Jimmy Olgeni , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Damon Hammis Subject: Re: large IDE raid In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Push for SCSI with a hardware RAID. The cost difference is rather large, but it's much better than taking a metric ----load of user complaints about slow performance. The last mail server I built had an INLINE RAID system on it for the /var/mail partition. FreeBSD saw it as one disk and it worked out quite well. But trust me from experience, as I inherited a network that had a few "servers" that had IDE drives and once I switched everything over to SCSI everyone was much happier. Just my $.02 --Damon At 10:55 AM 7/11/00 +0200, Jimmy Olgeni wrote: >Hello world, > >I'm a clueless FreeBSD newbie with some linux experience. > >I have to set up a large RAID for a somewhat big mail/http server for >an ISP (~500GB, "internet free mail"), and my company was looking into >raidzone, that is, a RAID made of inexpensive IDE drives with a custom >PCI controller. > >Raidzone supports linux and NT only, and it looks like they don't give >away the driver source code, so it can't easily be ported to *BSD. Do >you know of any similar products that support *BSD? Should I get a >clue and push for real SCSI? Should I use a hardware RAID controller, >or vinum? Are there any known "strange" interactions between vinum, >quotas and softupdates? > >Any help is really welcome. > >bye, > Jimmy > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message