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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:11:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@packetdesign.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, casner@packetdesign.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a MaxAttach?
Message-ID:  <20020620145956.F753-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net>
In-Reply-To: <200206201952.g5KJqELQ006938@intruder.bmah.org>

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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote:

>PS.  It's crossed my mind that the staff time involved in making this
>work could quickly exceed the cost of buying equivalent (maybe even
>better) "normal" hardware.  :-)

s/could/will/

If I were you I'd look at the 1U dual Xeon servers from SuperMicro.
Onboard Gigabit Ethernet, DDR SDRAM, 4 internal 3.5" drive bays plus
slimline CDROM and floppy, 64bit/133Mhz PCI-X slots.  They're /nice/.
You can find benchmarks on them here:

http://www.vampire.vanderbilt.edu/benchmarks.php

Brandon D. Valentine
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http://www.geekpunk.net                         bandix@geekpunk.net
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