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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: fastest disk controller? Date: 31 Oct 1995 11:32:06 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <474tv6$bpn@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DHA57u.IpI@twwells.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com> wrote: >I'm looking to put together a news server. News servers tend to >be disk bound -- so I want a *fast* disk controller. Ignoring >the multi kilobuck garbage that just isn't worth the incremental >cost, what's the fastest disk controller(s) for FreeBSD? I don't think there is *a* fastest disk controller, but either the al-cheapo NCR 53c810, and the Adaptec AHA-[23]94X (PCI) series work very well. Put at most two disks on one SCSI bus to avoid overloading the bus. Make sure you've got a mainboard that could handle more than two bus-master controllers. :) (If you want to use more.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)