--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:45:49 -0500 Greg Groth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are any of the major server brands more FreeBSD friendly than others? I'm
looking to purchase a server for some web apps. Our current config is
running on a 6 year old Dell PowerEdge machine with SCSI RAID 5, 1 Ghz
processor, 32 gig total disk capacity, and a gig of RAM. Upgrading this
machine would cost more than it's worth. Boss insists on a name brand
server (Dell, HP, Gateway, etc). Budget is in the $2K range. I'd rather
stay away from SATA at this point due to the incredible amount of
difficulty I experienced putting together a MythTV box earlier this year,
and go with SCSI. If no one has specific recommendations, are there any
specifics that are definite show stoppers that I should pay attention to
when reviewing specs?
I just bought a Dell 1950 rack mount with two 73GB SAS drives (3.5 inch,
15K RPM), PERC 5/i integrated card, RAID 1, DRAC, 3.2GB processor, 2GB RAM,
etc. It was $2800+ including shipping. I *think* you can get down to the
$2000 range by downgrading the processor and memory and getting smaller
drives, but it's not going to be easy. (I'll be installing FreeBSD 6.1
RELEASE on it tonight.)
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
