Server Hardware.

[Simon]

I keep hearing some people say that those zero-channel adaptec RAID
cards are not reliable while others say that they use them fine. Can someone
clear this up for me? how do they stand up to beating under heavy loads
and long uptime?

Thanks,
Simon


On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:48:42 -0500, Ken Menzel wrote:

>Hi Keith,
>   I would recommend FBSD 4.x for production and also if you are not
>yet familiar with FreeBSD.  This is really a freebsd-questions topic.
>
>Hardware info:
>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html#AEN33
>
>We use mostly Adaptec with raidutil from ports collection:
>Adaptec 2100S/32x0S/34x0S SCSI RAID controllers ( asr(4) driver)
>
>Ken
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Keith Woodworth" <kwoody at citytel.net>
>To: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>
>Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:46 PM
>Subject: Server Hardware.
>
>
>> Weve been running BSD/OS since 1996, with a few small FreeBSD
>machines
>> thrown in for testing and monitoring of things.
>>
>> Now since BSD/OS is EOL'd by WindRiver we will be moving to FreeBSD
>on
>> production machines.
>>
>> First will be a new webserver and probably a mailserver. Been
>looking at
>> some SuperMicro stuff and some of their machines are SATA Intel RAID
>and
>> it looks like FBSD 5.1 has support for this in their ata(4) driver.
>Is
>> this so?
>>
>> Anyone have recommendations on a board that will work with SCSI or
>IDE
>> Raid 1 under FBSD 4.8, 4.9 or even the 5.x train, that they are
>using in
>> production?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Keith Woodworth
>> MSN: shasta_5000 at hotmail.com
>>
>>
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