From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 18:17:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shalimar.net.au (shalimar.net.au [198.142.161.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA1A37B4E5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:17:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from shalimar.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shalimar.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAM2HC607067; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:17:12 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from count@shalimar.net.au) From: Zero Sum Organization: Tobacco Chewers and Body Painters Association. Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:17:12 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" To: Cosmos Boekell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: server MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00112213171207.05727@shalimar.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 22 November 2000 08:49, Cosmos Boekell wrote: > i want to purchase or build a server (i.e. dns, nfs, ftp, http, login, > etc.) and want to run free bsd. i can spend up to $2000 maybe > $2500. please let me know your thoughts (i.e. P III vs. AMD, > motherboards, RAID, SCSI vs. EIDE, rack vs. tower, etc.) > AMD should be fine, but I would try and build a multi-processor box, even if it means slower processors. It will likely perform better and the difference may increase when a ouple of FreeBSD problems get solved. SCSI would be nice, but that is much more expensive. I'd say multiprocessor would be more important. For a high hit rate, DSCSI is much better though. Towers are easy to work on. Racks you gotta disassebmle mostly. Depends if it is going to stay static or undergo change. Geoff -- count@shalimar.net.au Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message