Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 00:11:27 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/obj size Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.961105000637.13095n-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199611050752.XAA15011@MindBender.serv.net>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > On the topic of hard disks, what are the minimum requirements to > >run a FreeBSD machine as a news server with a full news feed in terms of > >CPU, memory, HD Storage and does it have to be on several HD instead of > >multiple large capacity drives such as 9 gig drives? > > You'd serve yourself well to peruse http://www.freebsd.org/ and look > for the newsgroup archives. Joe Greco, and others, have posted much > invaluable information about running large news servers. My guess is > that you'd want to start with the isp list, then maybe hackers and/or > stable. Look specifically for posts from Joe Greco, as he has been > the most vocal on this topic, lately. I'll take a look at the newsgroup archives first and see since everyone has been giving me different answers of what the minimum is. > To get you started, he recommends many smaller drives, probably 2GB > each, striped with ccd, across multiple SCSI controllers, if possible. > NCR/Symbios 53c8xx cards or Adaptec 2940/3940 cards would work best > (until the BusLogic driver gets tagged-command-queuing, at which time > it theoretically should be as good as the other two). Hmmm, would 4 GB drives work as well in this area and do I need to get 7200rpm drives or would 5400rpm do well? The machine will already have a Seagate Elite 9 ST410800W 9.1 gig Fast Wide SCSI-2 HD with the Adaptec 2940UW controller to start with. Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin
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