This is but a single data point, but if others can provide some
additional data, it might help you triangulate what you want.
I'd also recommend 3ware over Areca - I've had 2 bad experiences with
Areca involving data loss - only one of which I could really blame on
the controller, but 3ware
It's time to build a new server. My old one (a re-purposed Celeron D
2.9Ghz / 768M FreeBSD box with a a 1.5 TB raid on a Highpoint card) has
hit a wall in both performance and capacity. gstat on FreeBSD shows
me that the Highpoint raid array is the main bottleneck (partly because
it's in a
John,
IMO, the point behind BackupPC is to use cheap, easily upgradeable disk
media to make backups available and easy. That kind of steers me in the
direction of several low-end backup servers, either with separate
storage or all sharing a big fat fiber channel NAS. Buying a high end
I agree with what Jason wrote, particularly in regards to a 3ware
controller. I also like reiserfs, but for 1.5 Tb a strong case could be made
for XFS or JFS, depending on your standard issues like many small files in
the backup, or fewer larger files.
I would also consider raid 5 or 6. Nothing
