Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:16:23 -0700 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net> To: hardware@FreeBSD.Org Cc: ISP@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Server recommendation for co-location. Message-ID: <1001470583.3bb13a7799dd4@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net>
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I need to co-locate a server in Singapore so reliability is important:-). I am thinking of something with a ServerWorks LE-based board, multiprocessor, but with one P-III Xeon to start, running at from 700 Mhz to 1,000 Mhz, 2Gb initial ram, an extremely well ventilated box with multiple, hot swap, power supplies 500-750 watts, each. I would like to have a Raid 10 array with from .5 TB to 1 TB initially. I find the 3ware escalade 64 bit, switched, 7000 series to be a a very compelling solution but I remember seeing a thread not long ago about it having pretty serious problems in one installation, but I've also heard some very good things about it. Does anyone know of a solid raid 10 SCSI solution for FreeBSD? All suggestions appreciated especially about 3ware, motherboard, drives, etc. If I remember the drives that were having problems in the 3ware thread were IBM, so they are out. I was thinking about maxtor, I've used several (7500 rpm) for a couple of years with no problems. Now for the hard part, our finance guy wants to lease the equipment and would prefer to buy from a supplier rather than build it in house.:-( He obviously suggested, IBM, Dell, HP, Compaq, etc. etc. all of which have more trade-offs than I would like to make. Does anyone know of a real company that [could|would|does] build[s] something similar? Thanks, ed --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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