From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 1:33:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from synthcom.com (beacon.synthcom.com [198.145.98.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3020114F41 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:33:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neil@beacon.synthcom.com) Received: from beacon.synthcom.com (beacon.synthcom.com [198.145.98.253] (may be forged)) by synthcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA19342 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:45:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neil@beacon.synthcom.com) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:45:35 -0800 (PST) From: Neil Bradley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.4 motherboard/drive recommendations 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 I'm about to embark on putting together a "made for FreeBSD 3.4" system and would like recommendations from the peanut gallery. It handles a few dialin lines, a bunch of storage for about 10 clients, web services, routing, firewall, mail, news, etc... It is headless and a nice video card isn't necessary (would be a waste) Here's what I'm thinking of so far: Supermicro P6DGS (Dual PIII - up to 600MHZ - onboard Adaptec 7895) 20G Ultra-wide drive of some sort (fast - recommendations anyone?) 128MB PC100 DIMM (maybe more) 2 Intel 82559 ethernet boards (already working with FreeBSD 3.2) I'm sold on the P6DGS as my motherboard of choice at this time (unless there's an overwhelming reason to consider others, like the P6DGS doesn't work with FreeBSD). What I want is a solid, fast responding, high disk throughput machine. If anyone can recommend a specific 7200RPM/10000RPM Ultra Wide SCSI drive that works well, please let me know. Thank you! -->Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Bradley Synthcom home : http://www.synthcom.com Synthcom Systems, Inc. Y2K Dumbness - "Instant noodle meals are disappearing." ICQ # 29402898 "Hordes coming for my Ramen stash? I'm getting my gun." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message