Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array

2006-07-04 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 6/29/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006/06/29 09:40, Karsten McMinn wrote: > On 6/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My big problem is in selecting which SATA-Card (I've only used Dawicontrol > >on OBSD) and if I should buy one with four ports or two wi

Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array

2006-06-29 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:39:16PM +0200, Falk Husemann wrote: > Hi again! > I'll be buying four SATA disks, three for a RAID5 using RAIDframe and > one as spare (put in my closet). It'll run via two SATA controllers. > I'll stick with the cheapo stuff, as Stuart suggested and add some > 2gi

Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array

2006-06-29 Thread Falk Husemann
Hi again! I'll be buying four SATA disks, three for a RAID5 using RAIDframe and one as spare (put in my closet). It'll run via two SATA controllers. I'll stick with the cheapo stuff, as Stuart suggested and add some 2gig memory to the box too. Karsten, I'm a student, I won't need no hw ra

Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array

2006-06-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/29 09:40, Karsten McMinn wrote: > On 6/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My big problem is in selecting which SATA-Card (I've only used Dawicontrol > >on OBSD) and if I should buy one with four ports or two with two ports. Cheap generic is probably the way forward.

Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array

2006-06-29 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 6/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My big problem is in selecting which SATA-Card (I've only used Dawicontrol on OBSD) and if I should buy one with four ports or two with two ports. LSI (ami) sata controllers will get you up to 8 disks on a controller. They are well liked

Re: Recommendation for RAID-Array

2006-06-29 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:24:25AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list! > I'm looking into buying hardware for a RAID5. The system I have spare is > an Athlon XP 2500, 1.5G memory, PCI-architecture, one fxp and one em > network cards. > > The system will be used for backing up my personal