John Nietzsche wrote:
Dear gentleman,
i am considering a Dell PE 860 1u rack server for usage as my network
storage server (nfs).
I wonder about reports from the openbsd comunity using it with openbsd
4.0/4.1 on stability and performance. What you guys/girls have to
report? It is worth its price?
We have four of them and they are doing fine for us. We use them as pure
routing/firewall boxes so I can't speak to their performance in other
loads. They have been very stable and also export a fair number of
sensors via the openbsd sensors framework so they are easy to monitor.
You may also find the dmesg available on armorlogic's compat list to be
useful:
http://www.armorlogic.com/openbsd_information_server_compatibility_list.html?action=detail&id=pe860
Another question: I am familiar with SAS raid controller. Formerly,
U320 SCSI one were required to have dual/quad channels
(internal/external) if more discs were required to be supported. Is
the channels (internal/external) ideia sound within SAS RAID world ?
No idea. We only use a single local disk in each one and use carp for
redundancy between machines.
Chris Black
