From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 18:39:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1527D106564A for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:39:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=0911a05d3a=johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [64.57.183.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B248FC1C for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24335 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2010 18:11:50 -0000 Received: from mail1.iecc.com (64.57.183.56) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 29 Oct 2010 18:11:50 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:vbr-info; s=9671.4ccb0e66.k1010; i=johnl@user.iecc.com; bh=+DI2S1n49Wrj05NdeRoBRG3Wx625EaQRZCEUnB6mVlc=; b=ASF3V8kCecjaLExKxYu41qpAVfegPaMkpKbgHDJWj/0hU+dbLi6TQ5TD6ebHvzgpCcx/WlHy+cl04213WjeLsBB1JSrUCwbubcEXHiOmkvlmEbDs0Xa5iUMnI1AeWHV5fa74MFRdJrw8Vwr6XB3j5yWuKjf/HK+9r2Hk15A+B1Y= VBR-Info: md=iecc.com; mc=all; mv=dwl.spamhaus.org Date: 29 Oct 2010 18:11:50 -0000 Message-ID: <20101029181150.38512.qmail@joyce.lan> From: John Levine To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: cscotts@gmail.com Subject: Re: Server hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:39:53 -0000 >My question -- are any server vendors well recommended for FreeBSD? I bought a used HP Proliant DL385 for about $300 on ebay, then loaded it up with 8GB of RAM (making a total of 12GB) for another $200. Works great, FBSD 8.1 groks all the controllers, even produces appropriate syslog messages when I pull a disk out from the RAID and replace it. I got it when I realized it included a good remote console and the whole thing was about the same price as an add-on remote console for my old server. It's got six 73GB 15K rpm disks, for a total of 360GB usable very fast disk, which sounds like less than you want, but you get get these things with six hot swap SATA slots and put in whatever disks you want. They're kind of pricey when new, but you can usually find last year's model cheap on ebay. I also used to build my own, but at prices like this there's no point. It's noisy and power hungry, so I'd only put it in a data center, not in my office. R's, John