Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:16:18 -0500 From: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com> To: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Reasonably priced RAID 1 in a 1U server? Message-ID: <3AFAB0C1.86A6C704@journalstar.com> References: <200105100648.XAA89153@akira.lanfear.com>
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I just built a server using the Adaptec 2100s, and it was butt-simple to get going. I think you can get the card for about $430US. It requires SCSI hard drives. I'm assuming in 1U cases the cards are installed horizontally so space isn't and issue... So all in all it will probably cost you about a grand for the card and two drives. The remote monitoring stuff is Linux-centric, so I haven't really bothered trying to make it work in FreeBSD. The guy where I host it is supposed to call me if the evil drive-fail light comes on. :-) I'm sure there are other cards that also work well with FreeBSD but the 2100s is the only one I've had experience with. Marc W wrote: > > hello! > > in the near future, i'm going to need to put together a 1U server > for running a FreeBSD server system. One of the things I would like it > to have a RAID 1 support, set up in such a way that if a disk fails, > the system can keep running with the other. Ideally, the fix for a bad > disk would simply be to put in another disk and reboot and be back. My > main goal is complete duplication of the data, and as simple a > replacement as possible. > > The question is: just what fits in a 1U server -- I'm a little new > to these, and don't want to buy a controller that's not going to work > when i get the computer. > > Any suggestions for what I might want to set up here? any > recommendations for 1U servers that I might want to consider for > maximal FreeBSD compatibility also?? > > thanks! > > marc. > > Marc W, San Francisco, CA > Kiltdown -- a free email client for X > www.kiltdown.org -- it's what's underneath that counts. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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