From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Apr 19 17:43:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.phreak.net (blotto.phreak.net [207.250.188.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BFF37B43E for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from operator@phreak.net) Received: from phreak.net (localhost.phreak.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.phreak.net (Postfix) with SMTP id BD0E09EE01; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:43:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 207.250.188.69 (SquirrelMail authenticated user operator) by mail.phreak.net with HTTP; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:43:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3661.207.250.188.69.987727410.squirrel@mail.phreak.net> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:43:30 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? From: "Steve Kaczkowski" To: pcalkins@oemsupport.com In-Reply-To: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com> References: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F0239A1@puke.reno.oemsupport.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Have a quick (or not so quick) question: > > I am installing a datacenter with web servers, mail servers, database > servers and file servers. I don't want any MS products if I can help it > ;o). The question is which commercial vendors are best to use if going > with a FreeBSD OS? I've had GREAT luck with Dell 2400,2450s. The 2400s are the real large 4U suckers and the 2450s are are nice and small 2U. They both use the ServerWorks PIII Chipset (other models probably do too) and I've found it very reliable and FAST. Another nice thing about Dell is that you can order one of their PERC2/DC RAID cards (which is actually an AMI OEM) and have full support in FreeBSD.. Well, hope this helps and good luck! -- Steve Kaczkowski operator@phreak.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message