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They work just fine, many use them. RAID has nothing to do with PE.
If you get one with 4+GB of RAM, run AMD64 

-Simon

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:43:58 -0400, Benjie Chen wrote:

>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
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