Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:14:50 +1100 From: Joe Shevland <jshevland@rowantreesoftware.com.au> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recomendations please for new freebsd development system Message-ID: <438EB0FA.40403@rowantreesoftware.com.au> In-Reply-To: <0AE32D49-C916-44C1-B703-97A73EEBFA57@khera.org> References: <00d501c5f3e0$c7a0b870$59ab3a40@sleuth> <0AE32D49-C916-44C1-B703-97A73EEBFA57@khera.org>
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Vivek Khera wrote: > On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:58 AM, vizion wrote: > >> Would anyone be so bold as to make some recommendations for a reliable >> motherboard/processor combination on the assumption that this is to >> be a >> dual processor system running freebsd 6.0 > > > You definitely want something Opteron based for this kind of data > volume. And I'd go with LSI Megaraid 4 channel SCSI RAID controller > for your data connected to some Ultra 320 SCSI disks on multiple > channels of the RAID card. I've just bought a Tyan K8SD Pro with dual 2GHz cpus, though with the SiS SATA RAID controller which isn't supported. I've got 4 200+Gb drives, two of which I've mirrored using gmirror, but that motherboard also has U320 SCSI support. I don't have any hard data suffice to say its very snappy, looking at the gstatus output its getting perhaps 30Mb per second transfer between drives, but I might have that wrong (and that might be pitiful, I'm not sure). I haven't really benchmarked it to get the full details. I've setup 4 jails to be dev/test/prod environments and a sandboxed Samba server, and all in all its going very well so far. This is my first exposure to an Opteron system, so this isn't so much a recommendation as a "seems damn nice so far" :) Cheers, Joe
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