From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 16:45:09 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E6816A41B for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benjie@addgene.org) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07C013C483 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benjie@addgene.org) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so1032071waf for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.166.1 with SMTP id o1mr860045wae.1188571438190; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.77.8 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:43:58 -0400 From: "Benjie Chen" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Dell PowerEdge servers and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:45:10 -0000 Hi, I'd like to buy a Dell PowerEdge server to run FreeBSD, and MySQL on top of that. I've had good luck with low end servers and desktops, but have not tried any of the PowerEdge x950 on FreeBSD before... Do these machine work with FreeBSD6x? I am considering RAID5 or RAID0 if RAID5 is not stable under the FreeBSD+PE configuration. Thanks, Benjie