From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 08:14:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E4116A41F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:14:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jshevland@rowantreesoftware.com.au) Received: from www.rowantreesoftware.com.au (adsl-142-195.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.142.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C532743D62 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:14:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jshevland@rowantreesoftware.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.10.0.250]) by www.rowantreesoftware.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D7D311415; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 18:16:04 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <438EB0FA.40403@rowantreesoftware.com.au> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:14:50 +1100 From: Joe Shevland User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: <00d501c5f3e0$c7a0b870$59ab3a40@sleuth> <0AE32D49-C916-44C1-B703-97A73EEBFA57@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <0AE32D49-C916-44C1-B703-97A73EEBFA57@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: recomendations please for new freebsd development system X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:14:58 -0000 Vivek Khera wrote: > On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:58 AM, vizion wrote: > >> Would anyone be so bold as to make some recommendations for a reliable >> motherboard/processor combination on the assumption that this is to >> be a >> dual processor system running freebsd 6.0 > > > You definitely want something Opteron based for this kind of data > volume. And I'd go with LSI Megaraid 4 channel SCSI RAID controller > for your data connected to some Ultra 320 SCSI disks on multiple > channels of the RAID card. I've just bought a Tyan K8SD Pro with dual 2GHz cpus, though with the SiS SATA RAID controller which isn't supported. I've got 4 200+Gb drives, two of which I've mirrored using gmirror, but that motherboard also has U320 SCSI support. I don't have any hard data suffice to say its very snappy, looking at the gstatus output its getting perhaps 30Mb per second transfer between drives, but I might have that wrong (and that might be pitiful, I'm not sure). I haven't really benchmarked it to get the full details. I've setup 4 jails to be dev/test/prod environments and a sandboxed Samba server, and all in all its going very well so far. This is my first exposure to an Opteron system, so this isn't so much a recommendation as a "seems damn nice so far" :) Cheers, Joe