Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:48:01 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <104FD414-5FDD-4278-8422-D247D05BF946@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050627180959.087b8900@localhost> References: <200506261830.MAA29221@lariat.org> <ef10de9a050626173456cb1c6f@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20050627180959.087b8900@localhost>
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On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >> Highpoint RocketRAID: >> 1640: 4xSATA, PCI 32bit, 33MHz >> 1810A: 4xSATA, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >> 1820A: 8xSATA, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >> 2220: 8xSATA-II, PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz >> >> With the exception of the 2220 all of the other cards do RAID 5 in >> software. The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software Chad >> For your needs just about any RAID card from anyone will do >> what you want. The main reason I recommended highpoint's raid cards >> this because the company fully supports FreeBSD 4.x / 5.x with >> drivers >> and CLI/GUI management programs. >> > > That's great! We don't run GUIs on servers that run RAID (for obvious > reasons), but if they have a good CLI program it'll work well. > > >> For you hot-swapping needs look here for SATA cages: >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp? >> Submit=GO&Range=1&bop=and&description=cage&srchInDesc=SATA >> > > Anything that'll fit in a 17" relay rack? > > --Brett > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad@shire.net
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