Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:38:38 -0700 From: "Jon Simola" <jsimola@gmail.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server Hardware Recommendations Message-ID: <8eea04080607171338j7f04dbcbuccf53f1070d02fe2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0607171329220.47310@elara.frii.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0607171329220.47310@elara.frii.com>
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On 7/17/06, Matt Ruzicka <matt@frii.com> wrote: > My company has been purchasing almost exclusively Supermicro SuperServers > for our production FreeBSD server hardware for that last four years or so. > Over all I'd say we've been quite happy with Supermicro from a product > stand point, but recently we've been dealing with some odd hardware > issues. All of my Supermicro problems have been solved with BIOS upgrades. I've run across a few versions that were rather odd about SATA drives and the BIOS hanging during probes (P4SCE v1.2B, problems fixed with 1.2C). > I was wondering what others are using for production FreeBSD server > hardware. I'm most interested to see what manufacturers seem to be rock > solid from a hardware and FreeBSD interaction perspective and also have > solid support for those issues that come up from time to time. I have had nothing but great experiences with Tyan. They also have a few interesting options that I've been looking at for security/firewall appliances, such as their http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trophy_nr16.html with 4 GigE copper and 4 Fiber interfaces. -- Jon
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