From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Aug 10 20:25:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E530014C4E for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:25:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA09745; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:55:29 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA47129; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:55:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:55:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: Mike Tancsa , Tom , 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> References: <199908110231.VAA50838@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908110231.VAA50838@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:31:43PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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