Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:07:06 +1100 From: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org> To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any recommended Intel server motherboards? Message-ID: <ea2d4a5b0910120507p1c3821cahe965dfc1cd045d26@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091012015542.GB2096@lava.net> References: <20091012015542.GB2096@lava.net>
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The Intel boards all in all tend to be pretty well supported... we run a number of S3200SHL boards (about to be EOL'd I believe) and older S2000 series in production without any hitches. The basic Intel soft-RAID on the entry level boards should be avoided (use gmirror or similar if need be). If you are looking at any of the boards with onboard SAS, this is usually an LSI Logic based chipset (mfi driver from memory) and is fine as far as RAID reliability goes (at least in our experience, YMMV)... -- Antony On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> wrote= : > =A0A client is asking me to recommend hardware for a mailserver; they're > an OEM and whitebox builder, and would prefer to use an Intel server > board which seems reasonable. =A0Are there any particularly recommended > current models? > > =A0I seem to recall that Intel's RAID hardware is not that reliable, so > I am assuming I should either recommend they use plain SATA or SAS > drives, or steer them to an external RAID system with dedicated > controller. =A0If that's changed, it would be nice to know. > > Parameters: > > =A0The system will not be very high-throughput, primarily fronting and > acting as relay and storage queue for initially about 5000 mailboxes in > 100+ domains. =A0All spam filtering will be handled on another box. > > =A0-- Clifton > > -- > =A0 =A0Clifton Royston =A0-- =A0cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@la= va.net > =A0 =A0 =A0 President =A0- I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.= com/ > =A0Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting ser= vices > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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