Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:24:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy <kmacy@netapp.com> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@packetdesign.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, casner@packetdesign.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a MaxAttach? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10206201323020.6721-100000@elwood> In-Reply-To: <20020620145956.F753-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net>
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Based on the amount of effort we had to put in, I have to agree that you're going to have to need a _lot_ of hardware for the software effort to pay off. -Kip On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > >PS. It's crossed my mind that the staff time involved in making this > >work could quickly exceed the cost of buying equivalent (maybe even > >better) "normal" hardware. :-) > > s/could/will/ > > If I were you I'd look at the 1U dual Xeon servers from SuperMicro. > Onboard Gigabit Ethernet, DDR SDRAM, 4 internal 3.5" drive bays plus > slimline CDROM and floppy, 64bit/133Mhz PCI-X slots. They're /nice/. > You can find benchmarks on them here: > > http://www.vampire.vanderbilt.edu/benchmarks.php > > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > http://www.geekpunk.net bandix@geekpunk.net > ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ > +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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