From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 07:05:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D2816A4CF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCA743D45 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:05:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i2MF5Wd10298; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:05:32 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200403221505.i2MF5Wd10298@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: lists-freebsd@hawk-systems.com (Dave) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:05:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <093501c40ef0$2de04970$6600a8c0@toronto.ems> from "Dave" at Mar 20, 2004 09:56:53 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 2650 config for FreeBSD 4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:05:35 -0000 > > We are in the position to have to replace an intel ISP1100 which has > been running as our primary server for some time. As a potential > replacement we are looking at a Dell 2650 dual processor raid5 server, > specs below. Up until now, the ISP1100 with a P3 800 and 1GB of PC100 > RAM has been handling the load like a fine workhorse, but anything > purhcased now is well beyond those specs. Does anyone have any first > hand experiences, caveats, warnings, or commendations for this server if > it is to use FreeBSD 4.9 as a dns/radius/website with extensive > PostgreSQL database usage. We had a 2650 for a while and I was using it for development with FreeBSD. It worked fine - until another group here stole it for their stuff so we had to come up with a different machine a 1550 and a 4650, both of which also run FreeBSD fine. The 4650 has a raid controller, but we haven't made much use of it for raid stuff yet. You might want to get larger disks. The 18GBs are already small in this world. I think they have 36GB that do 15k RPM, though I think that on the list I looked at last week at DELL the 72 GB disk only did 10K RPM. ////jerry > PowerEdge 2650 > Processor 2x Intel Xeon 2.4GHz > Memory 1.0GB DDR, 2X512 DIMMS > Hard Drive Backplane 5 Bay (1x5) Hot Plug SCSI Hard Drive Backplane > Hard Drive Configuration On-Board RAID 5 > 1st Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 2nd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 3rd Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 4th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > 5th Hard Drive 18GB 15K RPM Ultra 320 SCSI > Primary Controller PERC3-DI, 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 2 Internal Ch- > Embedded RAID > Floppy Drive 1.44MB Diskette Drive > First Network Adapter Intel Pro 100S NIC w/ or w/o IP SEC Encryption > Optical Device 24X IDE Internal CD ROM > Power Supplies Redundant Power Supply, without Y-cord > Rack Rails VersaRails for Non-Dell 4-Post Rack > > Apprecite comments; > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >