From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 12 21:31: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6806C14C3B for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA41460; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:31:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:31:07 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bill Maniatty Subject: Re: In-Reply-To: <37B376C6.29DB3DE8@tibco.com> 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 On Aug 12 Aram Compeau wrote: > With the money you save there, buy a different motherboard (Say the > P2B-D), and get Ultra 2 wide SCSI. Then pick up some nice IBM LVD U2W > SCSI drives (Say, the IBM 18LZX if cost is not an issue, 18ES if it is > :-). You'll get a better boost from the U2W SCSI and the faster hard > drives than the dual CPU under most circumstance, IMHO. Those IBM drives > are very nice... Definitely IBM drives. > I can highly recommend the Lite-On FS020 case over an Inwin Q500. Only > $143 at Cobra Computers (good mail-order company, too). Look under > `Products->Cases and Power Supplies->Server Cases`. The model is > FSP-020.... > http://www.cobracomp.net/ Get the Inwin Q500-300 from the same place for $71.33 and get 3 more 5.24 and one more 3.5 drive bays than the Lite-On. The last four cases I've bought have been Inwin and I have yet to scratch or cut my hand in any of them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message