From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jan 28 02:41:11 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E950CC42A2 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:41:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (host-209-190-254-14.client.atlantech.net [209.190.254.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail", Issuer "mail" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CCBB12D5 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:41:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (tripel [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id v0S2GIWI020967 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:16:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:16:18 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill To: Matthias Apitz cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge r210 II In-Reply-To: <20170127144303.GA2706@c720-r292778-amd64.oa.oclc.org> Message-ID: References: <20170127144303.GA2706@c720-r292778-amd64.oa.oclc.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:41:11 -0000 On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Matthias Apitz wrote: > The company I'm working for, decided to put some older rack mount > servers into dust bin and I'm saving a Dell PowerEdge r210 II with 16 > GByte RAM and 8 CPU of 3.3 GHz as my new poudiere oven. The server has > no disks (because they must be destroyed). I booted FreeBSD CURRENT > amd64 from an USB key and have below the dmsg(1) and ifconfig(8) > output, attached below. > > http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/PowerEdge_R210_Tech_Guide.pdf > > Any comments about this "project" and any ideas about the disks to buy? > Thx That looks like a pretty kick-ass machine. I hope you'll have it in a server room, or some place away from the general public; seems like it would be as noisy as a hovercraft. I've been running FreeBSD on Dells for many years, and I've been happy with them. It seems to be quality hardware, and easy to work on. I've had no issues with FreeBSD -vs- the machine. For disks, I like the Western Digital ones that are labeled as "NAS" - I forget what color that is. Second choice would be the "surveillance" ones. I have the impression that both of these are (relatively) high reliability, and designed for 24/7 operation. I think the "surveillance" drives are slower than the "NAS" ones. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ]