Carl Brewer wrote:
>
>
> I'm trying to put together a half decent home server
with
> around 400-500 gig of disk space and some redundancy -
I
> can get 3 x 300GB IDA or SATA disks quite cheap, or 2
400GB for
> quite a bit more... So I think maybe HW RAID5. or
raid-Z
> if I have a change in tack and look at opensolaris or
ZFS gets
> ported to NetBSD? I don't want to take the
performance hit on
> s/w RAID5, as I'm hoping to run this as a xen server
at some point
> and want all the CPU I can get if and when I do that.
This will be
> going into a desktop style case and will not use SCSI
(the disks are
> just way too expensive). If I'm wrong and s/w RAID 5
doesn't suck (my
> experience with s/w RAID5 was on an old Sun E450 with 3
x 36GB SCSI
> disks running SunOS 5.8 and it was a -dog-) then I'm
happy to be
> corrected for my false assumption!
>
> Looking through the hardware support pages on the
netbsd.org site
> there's a bundle of different controllers listed here
:
>
> http://www.ne
tbsd.org/Hardware/pci.html
>
> But I don't know which of them is much good, so throw
myself
> open to the wisdom of the list. Any suggestions?
What's good
> and cheap (I know ...) and easy to get hold of?
Further to this, I can get the Adaptec 2410SA at an
affordable
price (it's around $500 AUD - roughly the cost of a 400GB
HDD).
With that in mind, I'm leaning more towards a RAID1 setup
instead as I guess the extra cost for the controller gets
rid of
the cost difference (not to mention the extra power
consumption from
3 disks, heat, noise etc).
Am I crazy?
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