Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:58:59 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "akanwar@digitarchy.com" <akanwar@digitarchy.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1u rackmount servers. Message-ID: <20030626175859.GA9420@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <29950-220036426165441966@M2W051.mail2web.com> References: <29950-220036426165441966@M2W051.mail2web.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:54:41PM -0400, akanwar@digitarchy.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for user recommendations for 1u rack mount servers that work > with FreeBSD (4.8). These will be placed in a colo facility so my > requirements are: > > 1) Basic Lights out managemant via serial console > 2) 2.66 or better processor > 3) at least 2 gigE NICs > 4) IDE/SCSI 80GB drive > > I am most concerned about good drivers for (3) and (4). I've had good luck with the Intel OEM 1U Xeon boxes. We've got about 70 of them. We haven't used the managment functionality extensivly though. You can get them from a number of vendors. We bought ours from Iron Systems. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++zRiXY6L6fI4GtQRAt+6AKCBNNoAiNptOlLy8rDchpD5BO09XwCgyaau cGPdVU/2lwPgCCAYHWEvspc= =qTBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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