From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 26 5:19:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (c001-h011.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4715D37B403 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 05:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 2923 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 05:19:26 -0700 Date: 26 Sep 2001 05:19:26 -0700 Message-ID: <20010926121926.2922.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> X-Sent: 26 Sep 2001 12:19:26 GMT Received: from [24.48.64.135] by mail.sawilson.com with HTTP; 26 Sep 2001 05:19:26 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: eculp@EnContacto.Net From: sawilson@sawilson.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.9.3.5 Subject: Re: Server recommendation for co-location. X-Sent-From: sawilson@sawilson.com 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 On Tue, 25 September 2001, Edwin Culp wrote: > > 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? > 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? Hello There, For SMP, I always use tyan stuff. They have serverworks based boards. For scsi raid 10 (1+0), I use AMI MegaRAID 428's or 434's. I usually go with IBM scsi drives. I don't know of anybody that's piecemealing systems together, then leasing them. If I'm not building it, I'm a big fan of either the Dell Poweredge series of SMP machines, or the Compaq equivalent. The raid solutions in both are supported. I've had great success with the PowerEdge machines running FreeBSD doing mission critical stuff. Even an old 2300/400 does a great job. I don't know very much about IDE raid. I don't have good feelings about using IDE for anything important. Are you sure this has to be a raid 10? I'm a big fan of the raid 10, but I'm a bigger fan of raid 50 at the moment. With an AMI 4xx card, you can have a hot spare already there waiting in case of drive failure, and it will automatically rebuild itself. If you install sendmail on this machine, please consider doing everything you can to make sure it's not configured as an open relay. :) I get enough spam from singapore. I hope this helps. -- Best Regards, S.A.Wilson "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message