From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 16: 2:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CECA37B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA93100; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:02:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:02:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Cosmos Boekell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Cosmos Boekell wrote: > i want to purchase or build a server (i.e. dns, nfs, ftp, http, login, > etc.) and want to run free bsd. i can spend up to $2000 maybe > $2500. please let me know your thoughts (i.e. P III vs. AMD, I've been running AMD processors with no trouble at all. The only difference I can see is a) Intel costs you $200 extra because you have to pay for their advertising campaigns, and b) Intel has a lock (for now) on some weird MPEG decoder, which won't matter for a server. > motherboards, RAID, The generic motherboards I've used have all worked, but that may have been dumb luck. Never dealt with RAID; sorry. You may want to look at vinum for RAID info. > SCSI vs. EIDE, SCSI is fast and, speaking as an engineer, a much more 'elegant' way to do disk drives (supports many disks on one CPU). However EIDE is a fraction of the cost per gigabyte, and it's hard to argue with that for a single-disk system. It all depends on your needs. > rack vs. tower, etc.) At a basic level, it doesn't matter. This will be determined entirely by your requirements. If you're in a tight colocation space where you only get a few rack units, go for the rack-mount. If you have a nice office and space is not such an issue, the tower will probably be cheaper to buy. Depending on where you buy it, the rack-mount chassis may offer some features not available in a generic tower. I'm thinking of things like hot-swappable redundant power supplies, serial port on the front panel, redundant fans, and so on. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message