Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:26:06 -0700 From: "Meagan Jia Pi" <meagan@e-lingo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: question about RAID Message-ID: <06e201bff665$cc6d05d0$e293c83f@meagan>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_06DF_01BFF62B.1FDBD330 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with another problem I have. =20 We have a server containing large log files (50 MB per day), and these = files are essential to the company. This=20 machine is running FreeBSD and has two IDE drive. As you can see, we = ought to find a more scalable and=20 reliable server to store these log files. I know RAID is probably the = way to go, but=20 Which level of array I should choose? And how do I scale for future growth? Many thanks in advance! -Meagan ------=_NextPart_000_06DF_01BFF62B.1FDBD330 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4030.2400" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi everyone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I hope you can help me with another = problem I=20 have. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>We have a server containing large log = files (50 MB=20 per day), and </FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>these files are = essential to the=20 company. This </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>machine is running FreeBSD and has two = IDE=20 drive. As you can </FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>see, we ought = to find a=20 more scalable and </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>reliable server to store these log = files. I=20 know RAID is probably the </FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>way to go, = but=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Which level </FONT><FONT face=3DArial = size=3D2>of array=20 I should choose?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>And how do I scale for future = growth?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Many thanks in advance!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Meagan</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_06DF_01BFF62B.1FDBD330-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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