From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 18:26:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066C316A418 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:26:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FE643D68 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:25:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id z3so1385804nzf for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:25:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fAzTyqZYtsNBy9fISXikbJjksVlhwaOBEHHnUlKdJ9KdwNQhIgSBVhRT39lLIMJxbSpOFcf8gO/22BAqVDkNQIMYvUitW5sQ5IkQTS7EO7fd039i48Ve5iYIZCfzm7MqmqHBw9wpSoaNmo5q9h32fYgLypDxec0O9T1y6iX3euo= Received: by 10.37.22.49 with SMTP id z49mr9195129nzi; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:25:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.101.10 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:25:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:25:59 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Philip M. Gollucci" In-Reply-To: <448DACD3.9090304@p6m7g8.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <448D27E2.9090703@p6m7g8.com> <448DACD3.9090304@p6m7g8.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware raid suggestions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:26:01 -0000 On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) > >> I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. > >> > >> I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup > >> both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not software. > >> > >> I'm more interested in the performance from raid then the redundancy. > >> > >> Its mainly if not exclusively going to be used for compilations of > >> software ASF software. Ideally, I'd like to NFS mount its disk on my > >> desktop over a local gigabit lan. > >> > >> Any pointers appreciated. > >> > >> I'm willing spend up to about $1,000. > >> > > > > How much space do you want? > 500GB->1TB is probably way more then I need, but I won't complain. > > I think 250GB should be good. > That server has 64-bit/33MHz PCI-X slots. At most you have about 105MB/s to work with, assuming your gigiabit NIC also sits on this bus. I feel that SCSI / SAS would be overkill for your needs because you can't take advantage of it's speed, this leaves you with SATA. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/