Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:10:01 +0000 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: Matt Sullivan <mattsullivan9@adelphia.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell 530 RAID 5 Recommendations Message-ID: <1139739001.17153.31.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43EE9B3F.7050708@adelphia.net> References: <43EE9B3F.7050708@adelphia.net>
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On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 02:19, Matt Sullivan wrote: > I am considering using FreeBSD 6 on an old Dell Precision Workstation > 530 MT. > It has Dual Xeon 1.5 GHz CPUs, 4 x Fujitsu AIC-7892A MAJ3182M SCSI HDs, > 1 GB RDRAM, Nvidia Elsa Gloria II Pro video, Integrated 3Com NIC, > Lynksys Wireless-G USB network adapter, and Integrated > Adaptec AIC-7892 SCSI controller. > > I would like to setup RAID 5. The intended use is in my home network as > a personal SOA/J2EE/MySQL development box and family file server. > > Please review and comment on my assumptions: > 1) FreeBSD 6-STABLE has fixed any 5.X SMP issues. There was a problem but this was fixed at 5.4. There are odd reports of problems with older hardware. I have had a problem with an oldish quad Compaq machine which I have not had time to get to the bottom of. > 2) I will need an additional RAID controller card. > 3) FreeBSD has issues similar to the folks at OpenBSD (my firewall OS) > regarding Adaptec - http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html: > we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use. > * Adaptec AAC-2622, AAC-364, AAC-3642, 2200S, 2410SA, 2610SA, > 2810SA, 21610SA Have a look at the hardware compat list at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html this may help with the raid card. > I would appreciate some recommendations with a focus on price/performance. > > Thanks, > Matt > Matt, One thought I would separate the file server support from a development machine. You may get into speed problems when heavily loaded. For my network I use 2 modest machines with large IDE drives running a HA setup as a file server. They sync to each other via a Gigbyte direct Ethernet connection and if one goes down or if off line for maintenance the other takes over. See http://linux-ha.org/ . Rob
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