From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 13 0:20:59 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 00:20:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58AA037B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eBD8KLK81066; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:20:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:20:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200012130820.eBD8KLK81066@earth.backplane.com> To: Jeroen Heijungs Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware Dell or BSDi References: <200012130749.IAA08219@mail.hmth.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Hello all, : :We are going to buy our first 1U 19" rack server (pizzacarton size), and :probably there will be more in the future, they have to run FreeBSD :4.1-stable. : :Normally we buy all our hardware at Dell, they also have this kind of :servers, for instance the PowerApp Web 100, we have also seen this kind of :servers form BSDi.com, they have FreeBSD preinstalled, and say they are :completely optimized. But they are considerably more expensive. : :Can anyone tell me more about both these servers, how good is the BSDi :machine (and the organization), does FreeBSD install on the Dell and so on? : :tia :Jeroen Heijungs :Het Muziektheater :Amsterdam, The Netherlands I don't know about the BSDi box, but we have a bunch of 2U VALINUX boxes and a few 2U Dell 2450's. Both work quite well. We decided to go with 2U because the 1U boxes wouldn't fit four 70GB scsi HD's, or at least, not in a manner that I'd be comfortable with :-). I think the VALINUX boxes have an edge over the DELLs in price.... a very significant edge when you load high-end hardware into them. I've noticed that DELL charges a ridiculous premium when you order their boxes in big disk and/or memory configurations. However, the DELLs use higher quality construction. Unless you intend to load a rack completely full of machines and have the cooling to match, 1U probably isn't worth the effort. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message