From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 14: 4:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B483B14EEF for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:04:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA48980; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 23:04:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 23:04:23 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001092204.XAA48980@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <858qb4$17fq$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gustavo V G C Rios wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Can anyone point some good reference on high quality hardware that runs > well FreeBSD. > I am planning a NFS server with about 200 GB HDD. > > What motherboards, chipset, bla bla bla you wizard suggest me ? I can recommend the ASUS P2B-LS. It already has FastEthernet (intel EtherExpress Pro/100) and U2W-SCSI (Adaptec) onboard. Works very well and reliably. You probably don't need an ultra fast CPU. Pentium-II/III with 450 or 500 MHz should be enough. Be sure to get enough RAM. As for the disks, IBM U2W drives are nice. Seagates work fine, too. You should also think about an approptiate backup solution. DLT, MLR, VXA, there are some possibilities to choose from, unfortunately not exactly cheap, but you get what you pay for. Avoid DDS. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message