Server Hardware.

[Ken Menzel]

We have about 800 users on 3 servers running RAID 1+0, plus our web
server (RAID 1). No problems ever.  Occasionaly a drive fails, stick
in the new drive and the array rebuilds.  The users never know.

We use 3200's and 2100's.  A lot of people have their favorites.
Another good card I have heard of is Mylex, but only through hearsay.
Most of the cards designed for high performance servers work fine,
the differences are in scalability and manageability and what you like
and how you use it and sometimes cost.

The asr-utils from the ports collection works really well. (for the
asr type controllers!).

We don't use the "zero channel" controllers,  so I can't comment on
that.

Best of luck

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon" <simon at optinet.com>
To: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>; "Keith Woodworth" <kwoody at citytel.net>;
"Ken Menzel" <kenm at icarz.com>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Server Hardware.


>
> 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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