From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 08:20:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04526 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:20:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from liquid.tpb.net (drum-n-bass.party-animals.com [194.134.94.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04518 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from niels@bakker.net) Received: from localhost (niels@localhost) by liquid.tpb.net (8.9.1a/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id RAA30441; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:20:06 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:20:05 +0100 (CET) From: N To: Dan Swartzendruber cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <981216170313.30310A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> 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? CNFS isn't too fast. See news.software.nntp and the inn-workers@isc.org archives, among others. >> 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... On the other hand, the hardware is cheaper. You can run Diablo on 9GB disks, but a reader machine is a different beast altogether, especially if you use traditional spool. And didn't mgt. give you a bag of money to throw at the problem anyway? :-) -- Niels. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message