> I'm seriously contemplating getting a Dell PowerEdge 2450 with
> five internal 10kRPM/18GB disks, 2GB of RAM, two of the fastest
> processors they've got, perhaps a pair of Intel EtherExpress Pro 100+
> NICs, and giving this another go with FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE.
I would consider 4.0, several (three or four) strings of LVD disks and
either a Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 (64MB or more) or an AMI MegaRAID
Enterprise 1500. (The 1600 should probably work too, but I haven't seen
one yet so I can't be sure.) And definitely softupdates.
Note that you can't put more than 8 disks into an array with the Mylex
controller (easily), so you'd still want to use ccd or vinum over the top.
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