Hi everyone,
I am preparing to build a new FreeBSD/DA server and am curious about the possibility of using a software raid option. We have a couple FreeBSD/DA servers that are using 3ware raid cards (raid-1) - which work fine thus far.
In another post on the forum jlasman (thanks for the info!) mentioned software raid on Linux being an excellent option (performance + cost savings) - This Post.
With this in mind I setup an Ubuntu test server with software raid and I am VERY impressed with the performance (This has since become my home backup server for DA client backups).
With regard to FreeBSD - I have setup several Samba file servers using GMIRROR and while the systems were very stable - disk performance was pretty poor (e.g. cannot hold a candle to Linux software raid). Until I setup the Ubuntu server above, I had preconceived notions regarding performance based on GMIRROR - STABLE and SLOW.
Low and behold - I again revisit the notion of software raid with FreeBSD. Has anyone implemented a software raid solution that could handle the typical load of web/database/email services under DirectAdmin?
For the DA/FreeBSD users - what is your standard Raid solution (hardware/software/none)?
Thank you for any input/suggestions you provide!
I am preparing to build a new FreeBSD/DA server and am curious about the possibility of using a software raid option. We have a couple FreeBSD/DA servers that are using 3ware raid cards (raid-1) - which work fine thus far.
In another post on the forum jlasman (thanks for the info!) mentioned software raid on Linux being an excellent option (performance + cost savings) - This Post.
With this in mind I setup an Ubuntu test server with software raid and I am VERY impressed with the performance (This has since become my home backup server for DA client backups).
With regard to FreeBSD - I have setup several Samba file servers using GMIRROR and while the systems were very stable - disk performance was pretty poor (e.g. cannot hold a candle to Linux software raid). Until I setup the Ubuntu server above, I had preconceived notions regarding performance based on GMIRROR - STABLE and SLOW.
Low and behold - I again revisit the notion of software raid with FreeBSD. Has anyone implemented a software raid solution that could handle the typical load of web/database/email services under DirectAdmin?
For the DA/FreeBSD users - what is your standard Raid solution (hardware/software/none)?
Thank you for any input/suggestions you provide!