Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:48:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Assembling new machine Message-ID: <199710090048.RAA11124@kithrup.com>
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Okay, I'll be starting to assemble a new (low-volume server) machine "soon." (This will be to replace the poor, outdated machine that kithrup is. :() The parts I've pretty much settled on: ASUS P55T2P4N motherboard SC-200 SCSI card DEC-based ethernet (Kingston KNE40BT was recommended) The parts I haven't decided on: CPU (P-133, K6-166, K6-200?) RAM (32 or 64MBytes, haven't decided which yet) disks (I'll scavange the CD-ROM drive from kithrup, which doesn't use it much. I'll get a cheap VGA/SVGA video card, and I'll use the keyboard and monitor from kithrup as well. Floppy drive doesn't matter.) For the disks... I'm not sure what to do. I don't need a *lot* of space -- so I'm thinking 2GBytes or so. I got a recommendation for the Seagate ST32171N, which I haven't found but did see a ST32272N which appears to be an ultra version of that. And, of course, several people have recommended an IBM drive whose name and part number I forget :). Someone else recommended the Quantum Atlas II series; Fry's (local computer supermarket) has a Quantum Atlas II 2.2Gbyte fast wide drive for $265. But the low price concerns me. I'd also consider, I think, getting an EIDE drive (1-2GBytes) for root and usr, and using the SCSI drive for /var/users and /usr/src. (I will be using, incidently, a 1GByte Fujitsu drive for my news disk -- this particular drive is currently in use in kithrup for just that purpose.) My requirements for disk drives are: affordable, reliable, reasonably fast and large. I also don't know whether the SCSI drives should be internal or external. External adds a fair bit of cost, but then I don't need to worry as much about power-supply problems. But, then, I won't be having a huge amount of drives -- I don't expect to have many more than what I've stated so far, not for a while at least. So... comments? Recommendations? Warnings? :)
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