From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 18 08:02:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2A016A4DF for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:02:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: from mail.alameda.net (mail.alameda.net [64.81.53.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088FE43D45 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:02:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: by mail.alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AE1A033D20; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:01:59 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: david raistrick Message-ID: <20060718080159.GH45191@evil.alameda.net> References: <20060717221748.GG45191@evil.alameda.net> <20060717213720.K45193@xpc.icantclick.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060717213720.K45193@xpc.icantclick.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-ANI-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ANI-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ANI-MailScanner-From: ulf@alameda.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Ulf Zimmermann Subject: Re: Server Hardware Recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:02:06 -0000 On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:40:36PM -0400, david raistrick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > >The company I work at started with Supermicro when we moved to Linux > >3+ years ago but we switched quickly to HP Proliant DL. To me the > >DL servers are just great in all aspect with just the little thing > >of HP not providing management software for FreeBSD. > > Are you using any of the SATA models? How are they working out? > > I've yet to have a good experience with SATA and FreeBSD...... > > ..david We only got 1 server with a SATA drive, a DL145. It is our sniffer box (runs FreeBSD), but the disk isn't used much in it. All the others have SCSI (U320 or SAS). -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html