Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:13:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Eric Zimmerman <heli@mikestammer.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Server build config, what would you do? Message-ID: <20080409181138.D3535@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <47FCE40D.5080204@mikestammer.com> References: <47FCD46B.1060007@mikestammer.com> <20080409165549.A3378@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <47FCE40D.5080204@mikestammer.com>
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> > I'd like a C2D to allow for future growth and the fact that it will be > serving files for several people on my home network not to mention the other > services on it. buying computers for future needs is nonsense - as their prices fall all the time. not mentioning that file serving isn't CPU intensive. > > Why do you think no special controller works best? If that was the case, why i don't just think. i'm sure. use gmirror/gstripe/gconcat/combination of them to get best performance. make sure to set -s 1048576 at least in gmirror, and huge stripes (like 512MB) in gstripe. > would they even make hardware based RAID cards, or RAID cards at all? I have because there are people like you willing to pay for them :)
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