From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 25 19:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from EnContacto.Net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A19837B408; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by EnContacto.Net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f8Q2GN423768; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 24.20.19.75 ( [24.20.19.75]) as user eculp@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:16:23 -0700 Message-ID: <1001470583.3bb13a7799dd4@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:16:23 -0700 From: Edwin Culp To: hardware@FreeBSD.Org Cc: ISP@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Server recommendation for co-location. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 24.20.19.75 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I need to co-locate a server in Singapore so reliability is important:-). I am thinking of something with a ServerWorks LE-based board, multiprocessor, but with one P-III Xeon to start, running at from 700 Mhz to 1,000 Mhz, 2Gb initial ram, an extremely well ventilated box with multiple, hot swap, power supplies 500-750 watts, each. I would like to have a Raid 10 array with from .5 TB to 1 TB initially. I find the 3ware escalade 64 bit, switched, 7000 series to be a a very compelling solution but I remember seeing a thread not long ago about it having pretty serious problems in one installation, but I've also heard some very good things about it. Does anyone know of a solid raid 10 SCSI solution for FreeBSD? All suggestions appreciated especially about 3ware, motherboard, drives, etc. If I remember the drives that were having problems in the 3ware thread were IBM, so they are out. I was thinking about maxtor, I've used several (7500 rpm) for a couple of years with no problems. Now for the hard part, our finance guy wants to lease the equipment and would prefer to buy from a supplier rather than build it in house.:-( He obviously suggested, IBM, Dell, HP, Compaq, etc. etc. all of which have more trade-offs than I would like to make. Does anyone know of a real company that [could|would|does] build[s] something similar? Thanks, ed --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message