Recommendation for scsi disk array?

[Eric Anderson]

Adam McDougall wrote:
> I am setting up two 1U servers to be FreeBSD Postgres servers.
> I want to use a 3U SCSI disk array attached to each one for the PG data.
> I have 73G hitachi disks already that I want to use to populate 8
> out of 16 slots of each of two arrays.  Redundant 120v power supplies
> are important, hot swappable would definitely be nice, swappable 
> redundant fans would probably be good.  I don't really need environmental
> monitoring, and I will raid each array using a PCI card (lsi logic) in
> each server.  
> 
> Does anyone have any product/company recommendations, or past experience with a 
> suitable product or company that hopefully still exists?  Any warnings
> or bad experiences with any products out there?  I should purchase soon
> and need to work on the product research.  Thanks.

I highly recommend the arrays from ACNC:

http://www.acnc.com

We have over 20 of them in use.

They have triple redundant hot swappable power supplies too.


Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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