From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 27 9:42:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CC437B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scanner@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA75946; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:42:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:42:33 -0500 (EST) From: To: Ed Henderson Cc: "'Bob Martin'" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Good server motherboard? In-Reply-To: <002f01c0b6dd$8538e560$0464a8c0@pnt004> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Ed Henderson wrote: > You mention that I should consider software RAID if I only need level 1. How much processing overhead is there? My system will be running with a single 1.2GHz Athlon CPU. Software RAID like Vinum has proven to be faster then HW RAID. Mainly because of HW Raid card's using poorly sized stripes. There is a benchmark test of Vinum vs some DPT Cards that brad knowles put on the web. If you want the URL I would be happy to dig it up for you. Vinum is FAST++, and you can enable softupdates on Vinum as well. So you get speed and reliability. And I use this combo on alot of Postfix mail servers for the mail queue. I couldn't be happier. Vinum is incredible. Now I just have to keep working on some decent doc's for it :-) ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., Wellington, Kansas Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message