On 08/07/14 22:56, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > If used soft-raid from BSD, does it consume more RAM or processing > functions etc?
Than a good RAID card? of course. significantly more? probably not. > I will have to use this server for PF , OpenVPN , Squid, Postfix or > Sendmail and Apache etc.. you realize this says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, right? That stuff has been around since a PII and a UDMA2 IDE disk would have been "unbelievably fast". Until maybe five years ago, my mail server was a Pentium 1. It all depends on what your load. Because you ask this question this way, I'm going to *hope* your load doesn't come close to taxing this box, otherwise, you have problems far bigger than this box. >> Therfore I can't beleive HP proliant series use a fake-raid.... Most server manufacturers have had a "PC-on-a-Rack" system. You just don't need HW raid, redundant power supplies and such on DNS servers and other "otherwise redundant" servers. You want simple, cheap boxes that boot fast and run simple. > this is HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 Url > > > http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-detail.html?oid=5379527#!tab%3Dspecs huge amounts of talk on this thread, no dmesg. Please note there are lots of different machines with the same general model number. That's why you shouldn't ask hw questions without a dmesg. No one gives a rat's rump what your server COULD have...you care what YOUR server DOES have, and how the OS sees it. HOWEVER, the starting price of that server is less than the base price of most /real/ RAID controllers. I think that pretty well ends this discussion. Nick.
