Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:37:16 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970311193715.0115c720@mixcom.com>
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At 10:01 AM 3/11/97 CST, Joe Greco wrote: >My basic philosophy has always been to reduce resource contention >whereever I can. The nice ultra wide SCSI controller that Matthew >has probably cost $200-$300. I can outfit a system with three NCR-810 >controllers for that price (actually more like $120 if I use the real >cheap ones, a bit risky) and I gain three independent SCSI busses. > >I usually like to stripe _across_ the controllers, although I can't say >for sure that putting spool and history on separate SCSI busses is a >bad idea. The real idea is simply to provide as much independent I/O >capacity as possible. Not sure if 2.2 supports it, but what about the Adaptec 3985 card and use RAID5? There are 3 channels and IO is spread across all 3. The price is a bit high, however. Yeah I know, just what you need: hot swapping for news. :) Just an idea. Definately agree on using smaller drives, but have more of them. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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