From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 14:59:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ux.accesscom.net (ux.accesscom.net [204.181.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2ED6637BFE4 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlistbsd@icorp.net) Received: from p301.accesscom.net(204.181.189.1) by ux(smtpd 2.1.2) with SMTP id smtp010807; Tue, 7 Mar 00 16:58:51 -0600 Message-ID: <38C58929.548A69C6@icorp.net> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 16:56:41 -0600 From: James X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID/config questions References: <38c48132.1056418179@mail.sentex.net> Content-Length: 1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Tancsa wrote: >1. What is the best RAID controller/model to use? (for either setup) > >I've been pretty happy with Adaptec and FreeBSD's support of Adaptec > >controllers, so I would prefer to stay with Adaptec but don't know about > >their RAID offerings.. > > No Adaptec RAID support. Try a Mylex DAC 960 based card for low end or the > AMI MegaRAID. Its pretty straightforward to setup via the card's BIOS. I'm definitely interested in performance and reliability and willing to pay more. This is for a server and not a workstation. I guess if I'm interested in a setup where I have 3 drives, with approximately 2/3 of the total space available, that is RAID0+1? I haven't worked with RAID before and I'd prefer my first experience to be as painless as possible. Are there any RAID controllers/drives specifically tuned for each other? I'm hoping to get some feedback on what RAID systems users on this list may recommend - and a good source for the products. Thanks very much! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message