Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:29:36 -0700 From: "pete wright" <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: hardware raid suggestions Message-ID: <57d710000606121129l66568c9aj46d3b569a8d5be56@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <448DACD3.9090304@p6m7g8.com> References: <448D27E2.9090703@p6m7g8.com> <ef10de9a0606120939v211e959bh9e43ad7c421b1c9e@mail.gmail.com> <448DACD3.9090304@p6m7g8.com>
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On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> 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. > I have had good luck with LSI RAID cards (hardware reliability wise). You may want to check the archives for fully supported, non-GIANT locked cards. From a performance perspective I would invest in a card with ample onboard ram 128megs or greater, and investigate getting a BBU unit for the card as well. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group
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