On 04/23/2014 05:46 PM, Vick Khera wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:14 AM, mayak <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have inherited a used an HP DL160 for use at a data center to act as a >> principal firewall -- > I have some HP DL120G5's in service. Initially they were set up with > the built-in SATA hardware RAID. This is *useless* to protect your > system on a disk failure. The whole machine comes tumbling down (at > least that was the case with FreeBSD 8.x they were running). > > I reconfigured them to use geom mirror instead, and everything has > been much better since. The FreeBSD kernel does a fine job managing > the mirror all by itself. There is very little disk I/O that goes on > with pfSense anyhow, so you won't notice the CPU load. > > All that said, I'd go with SSDs and configure pfsense to use memory > file systems for /tmp and /var to limit wear. I do this on my main > data center firewalls. I don't even bother mirroring the SSDs since > the whole system is "mirrored" by pfsense to a twin box.
hej erik, hi vick, so the DL160 is delivered with the B110i caca sata raid and one slot for a full sized pci card (currently used by a quad port Ethernet). I agree that the b110 is just worthless -- I tried setting it up for raid a mirror with two drives -- horrible. a second try with the BSD based raid worked great. So question is -- should I just throw 4 sata drives in the box and run a with a big mirror, or is there the added safety by running SSD. thanks for all the help! m
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