From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 13:11:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F87137B624 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dallben (pcp529856pcs.nash01.tn.comcast.net [68.52.131.181]) by mtaout02.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0GY000297TEGXP@mtaout02.icomcast.net> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:11:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:11:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a MaxAttach? In-reply-to: <200206201952.g5KJqELQ006938@intruder.bmah.org> X-X-Sender: bandix@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, casner@packetdesign.com Message-id: <20020620145956.F753-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- http://www.geekpunk.net bandix@geekpunk.net ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message