January 10, 2013

This server describe herein is now known as knew. This is the fourth in a series of posts about building a new server. What’s happened since the last post? I’ve upgraded to an LSI SAS card. Why? Better throughput. And LSI is well supported on FreeBSD. This card is not used for RAID. It is used strictly as a disk controller and the disks will be presented to the OS as JBOD. Background: […]