Server Hardware.

[Simon]

Yes, Mylex are great, that's what we have been using thus far.
However, Mylex is no longer in business as LSI Logic acquired
them. So now, we are looking for different (perhaps better) solution.

Perhaps someone put those zero channel controllers to a good
beating and can share their experience.

-Simon

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:38:36 -0500, Ken Menzel wrote:

>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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