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From: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:54:18 -0500
To: Christopher Prance <lildevildude@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A good server motherboard.
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On May 1, 2007, at 10:01 AMMay 1, 2007, Christopher Prance wrote:

> If you were to build a server using FreeBSD 6.2 , basically for  
> home use,
> serving media files, small web server, basically a very small load,  
> which
> motherboard would you recommend?  Mid range as far as price is  
> concerned.

I went on eBay and paid $300 for a Dell PowerEdge 2550 with a bunch  
of 73GB SCSI disk I set up in a RAID 5.  Mounted nicely in my rack in  
the basement...