Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:23:04 -0500 From: "Ed Henderson" <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Server MB suggestions? Message-ID: <000d01c0b476$532a5e00$0464a8c0@pnt004>
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I am planning to use FreeBSD as my primary OS for an ISP that I am starting. I am beginning my research for the best motherboard/hardware to use for a production environment. One that is reliable and performs well (with reliable being the number one priority!). I plan to build the server myself. My background has been in Solaris on Sun equipment so most of the hardware choices were already made for me! Here are some questions that I have: 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good MB to use? Or what chipset is the best and most stable with FreeBSD? I plan to use AMD Athlon chips, tower case, IDE drives/peripherals, at least 256MB RAM. Budget is limited since we are just beginning: approx. $1300 per server (not including tape drive which is seperate see #3 below). Servers will host typical ISP apps: DNS, RADIUS, mail, Apache, etc. 2. What IDE controllers do your recommend? Or would SCSI be better (but more costly)? I want to use at least RAID1 mirroring for some redundancy. 3. Any reliable tape drive suggestions? I have budgeted $1500 for a tape drive. 4. I am most familiar with building MSWindows systems and most of the time MB/chipsets require add'l software/drivers to be loaded when installing MSWindows. Since most boards are designed with MSWindows in mind does this present a problem when using FreeBSD as the OS? Thanks for the input! Ed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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