From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 5 1:19:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3b194.neo.rr.com [24.93.181.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F2437B642 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e758I8Y13732; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 04:18:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 04:18:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: ym g Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any opinions about DLink DFE-530TX 10/100 card ? In-Reply-To: <20000805071602.91504.qmail@graffiti.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi, I am building a relatively low-cost machine with relatively decent > performance. It is primarily going to be serving static pages, some > audio and maybe some video. The components I am considering are > > P3/450 with 256MB ram and 6GB IDE. 3Ware 2channel ATA raid with 2 disks > in RAID-0 config. D-Link DFE -L530TX 10/100 network card I suddenly think back to the days of: "It is primarily going to be serving static pages, some audio and maybe some video. The components I am considering are 486-DX4/100 with 32MB ram and 1.6GB IDE...." (philosophical question) Have things really changed that much? I do believe that a T1 from 3 years ago had the same capacity as a T1 today... :) (Sorry, but that's my opinion about how people routinely over-power web servers, just because people worry about the numbers too much..) --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message