From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 10:42:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2981616A412 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:42:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from V.Konrad@lse.ac.uk) Received: from exic6.lse.ac.uk (exin.lse.ac.uk [158.143.217.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A57443CAC for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:42:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from V.Konrad@lse.ac.uk) Received: from exic6.lse.ac.uk ([158.143.216.123]) by exic6.lse.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:43:05 +0000 Received: from whirpool.lse.ac.uk ([158.143.201.19]) by exic6.lse.ac.uk over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:43:05 +0000 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:42:33 +0000 From: vladimir konrad To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061130104233.0849e6f7@whirpool.lse.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: lse X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.6.4; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Nov 2006 10:43:05.0219 (UTC) FILETIME=[510D2D30:01C7146C] Subject: Re: IBM BladeCenter LS21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:42:40 -0000 > Hey, has anyone used FreeBSD on a IBM BladeCenter LS21, I'm thinking > about getting that hardware, but I'd like to know if it can run > FreeBSD. not FreeBSD related info but, we have IBM blades (not sure if they are LS21 series so maybe this does not apply to yours) and they use laptop hard disks. in our case they run 24/7 and even there is very little activity on the hard disks we had almost every hard disk fail within the duration of 2 years (each blade has two disks in raid1 mirror) - that is around 6 disks in 2 years. even we are covered by service contract and the replacement disks were sent quickly it is still a hassle. i thing that putting laptop hard drives into servers was a bad idea. vlad