From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 07:29:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDED16A4CF for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 07:29:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9314443D62 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 07:29:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0GFTR5E028907 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:29:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:29:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: FreeBSD Chat List Message-ID: <20040116102230.I36035@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Recommendation for small server X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:29:30 -0000 I have a client that has had a FreeBSD server for about 4 years. Boot drive is an old SCSI drive and second drive is IDE. 4 months ago the IDE drive died taking with it data (we lost about 2 weeks of data). Now the replacement disk is dying too ad0s1e: hard error reading fsbn 166931759 of 83465744-83465967 (ad0s1 bn 166931759; cn 10391 tn 5 sn 29) status=59 error=40 We learnt our lesson and we have 2 different types of backup so we will loose no data. In the mean time I am moving the data he needs the most to the SCSI dis, but I am thinking that something in the machine is killing the IDE drives. Thinking of replacing the server all together. Any recommendations for a small server? Also thinking of a 3ware controller to setup RAID 1. Last I used 3ware controllers, several years ago, they did not report to dmesg when a HD was dying. Do they do now? I would much rather get a SCSI raid, but price difference is probably going to be big. This is a small 3 people office primarily using it for samba. Anyone bought recently a small server/desktop from one of the FreeBSD vendors that could recommend?