From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 7:31:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3E637C1F3 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26767; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:31:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:31:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Bruce Burden , Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: low-cost SCSI cards?? In-Reply-To: <20000613173840.C79393@luke.cpl.net> 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, 13 Jun 2000, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > I took a look, and I did manage to find an Intel 840 based > SuperMicro with no SCSI built in. I believe it did have built in > Ethernet, but thats ok. I didn't get a price for that one, but the > ones with U2W SCSI are quite pricey. ($450+ range) Stay away from any of the RDRAM based solutions such as the 820 and 840. This has already been proven time and again by sites such as Anandtech and Tom's Hardware to be an extremely unwise investment. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message