Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:55:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Tom <tom@sdf.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: External RAID boxes (was Re: AHC errors. Bad disk or bad firmware, or bug in driver ?) Message-ID: <19990811125527.R31076@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199908110231.VAA50838@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:31:43PM -0500 References: <mike@sentex.net> <199908110231.VAA50838@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Tuesday, 10 August 1999 at 21:31:43 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > Mike Tancsa writes: >> Unfortunately my budget is limited. I dont want to go with the cheapest >> solution out there, nor can I afford the most expensive. For me, an >> external RAID box will be a step up rather than relying on tape backups and >> retiring old drives before they might have a chance to fail. > > At the prices I've seen tossed about, one could purchase twice as many > drives and use vinum in a simple mirrored mode. Or better yet, buy a > RAID-5 module from Greg Lehey? Better still, get one for free :-) I released the source to -CURRENT last week. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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