From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 0:44:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10001.mail.yahoo.com (web10001.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECC3137B414 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:44:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomkersten98@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010831074140.80226.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.188.192.31] by web10001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:41:40 PDT Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:41:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Kersten Subject: Comments on Hardware choices for freebsd server To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am in the early stages of building a box that I intend to use as a FreeBSD server. It is my first attempt at building a computer, running a server, and I am very new to this OS--so I am trying to make things as easy as possible for myself. I would appreciate any comments on the following hardware in relation to setting up and running FreeBSD. Let me know if there are some obvious or not-so-obvious problems I might run into from my choices... Case: Antec SX840 (400 watt PS) Mobo/Prcsr: Gigabyte GA-7DX with AMD Thunderbird 1.4Ghz Memory: 512 MB Crucial DDR Storage: 60 GB 7200 Western Digital WD Caviar EIDE CDRW: 12x10x32 PLEXTOR I will also be getting a digital modem, a floppy, and a usb card maybe later. Once again, any suggestions/opinions on hardware that shouldn't be in the list or other hardware that would be better (from your experience) are appreciated.... Thanks, Thomas Kersten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message