From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 13:02:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C35AF16A4CF for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:02:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from polaris.umdnj.edu (polarisa.UMDNJ.EDU [130.219.34.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABDB43FE3 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mossmr@umdnj.edu) Received: from conversion-daemon.Polaris.umdnj.edu by Polaris.umdnj.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) id <0HOM00N01A6Z2K@Polaris.umdnj.edu> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:02:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from rwja.umdnj.edu (rwja.umdnj.edu [130.219.4.100]) by Polaris.umdnj.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HOM00JZPAGEIC@Polaris.umdnj.edu> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:02:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from [130.219.197.190] ([130.219.197.190])for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:02:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:02:11 -0500 From: Michael Moss To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Server Hardware Recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:02:31 -0000 Hello All, I have perused the archives extensively, but am still looking for a good answer to this: Does anybody have any server hardware recommendations considering the following? 1. Would like to run BSD 4.9 Release 2. Minimal Tweaking (do not want to tweak drivers etc) 3. RAID 2 or 5, sought in this order (greatest to least) SATA, SCSI, IDE 4. Dual processor a plus but not necessary Im mostly concerned with Motherboard recommendations, preferably with built in ethernet and raid which works "out of the box". What are some setups people out there have? This is for a PHP/MySQL intensive website. Thank you for your help. -M