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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:17:25 -0500
From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Darryl Hoar <darryl@osborne-ind.com>
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote:

> Greetings,
> I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650.  It has
> (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache
> 6 GB ECC Ram
> (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives
> Perc/3 raid controller.
> dual 10/100/1000 ethernet
> dual power supplies.
> 
> will I have any problem using Freebsd on this hardware ?

No.   Not if the hardware is working properly.
I would prefer larger and faster hard drives.

////jerry

> Going to be LAMP server. 
> 
> thanks,
> Darryl
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