Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:51:20 -0700 From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Time for a new SATA raid server ... Message-ID: <42A73E28.7060601@cloudview.com>
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I'm about to consign my old cobbled together file server and it's collection of FireWire drives to that place servers go to die. I need to build a file server with up to 2 TB of capacity - most of this storage will be near-line storage for video and photo archives and so will not have high performance needs. It will need to be highly reliable. My current thought is to go with a 3ware based SATA raid solution using 300 or 400gb sata drives (7 x 400's with 6 in a raid 5 array with a hot spare). Questions: does anybody on the list have such a box running in production? Any issues I need to watch for? Does anybody build these pre-configured? What other raid controllers should I consider? (must have real FreeBSD support) John
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