From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 26 10:43:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.clues.com [194.217.82.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A277637B77C for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA80061; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:43:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:43:48 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham To: mjy@geizhals.at Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reliable rackmount servers? Message-ID: <20000726184348.B79537@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <20000726194318.M26915@TK147108.telekabel.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000726194318.M26915@TK147108.telekabel.at>; from Marinos J . Yannikos on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:43:18PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:43:18PM +0200, Marinos J . Yannikos wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking at buying a rackmount server (preferably 2-3U) with the > following specifications: > - dual Pentium-III FC-PGA CPU capable > - >=1GB ECC SDRAM > - LVD-SCSI RAID-1 or Adaptec AAA-UDMA > - 2 x 36GB+ disks > > I have looked at the offerings of the following companies: > - Penguin Computing > - VA Linux > - Dell > - IBM (Netfinity) > > Can anyone please comment on the quality of the products of those > companies and how well they can be expected to work with FreeBSD? > Recommendations for other companies are also very welcome... > I have found Dell servers to be excelent, the only problem I have with the current 2400s and 2450s is the onbord RAID is the adaptec one which needs to be disabled to run FreeBSD :-( -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message