Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:06:23 -0400 From: Paul Pathiakis <paul@pathiakis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>, pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: hardware raid suggestions Message-ID: <200606121706.25038.paul@pathiakis.com> In-Reply-To: <57d710000606121129l66568c9aj46d3b569a8d5be56@mail.gmail.com> References: <448D27E2.9090703@p6m7g8.com> <448DACD3.9090304@p6m7g8.com> <57d710000606121129l66568c9aj46d3b569a8d5be56@mail.gmail.com>
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If you go SATA RAID, I've had good luck and good speed with RocketRaid 1820 cards. P. On Monday 12 June 2006 14:29, pete wright wrote: > 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
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