On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote: > Hello! > > I have to made a decision on choosing a dedicated server. > The problem i see is that while i can find very affordable and good > options they do not > provide hardware raid or even if they do it is not the best hardware for > freebsd. > The server base conf is 8core 32gb ram 2.8+ ghz. > So, maybe someone has personal experience with both worlds and can tell > if it > really matters in such configuration if i go for software raid. What are > the benefits > and what are the negatives of software raid? How much is the performance > penalty? > I am planning to use mirror configuration of two SATA 7200rpm 2TB disks. > Nothing fancy. > File system planned is UFS with journaling. >
I won't delve into detail here but if the data is important HW RAID is where you want to be. Perhaps you could give us a little more details about what the purpose of the server is? Mission-critical or low cost? Those two tends to be mutually exclusive... We are HP-only but have good experience from LSI as well. Just my $0.02. //per _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
