Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:32:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@hamell.hpc1.com> To: Mark Bannar-Martin <mbannar-martin@pearson-college.uwc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dual CPU hardware Newbie question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990726153101.8084G-100000@heorot.hamell.hpc1.com> In-Reply-To: <379E5A43.BA1A7423@pearson-college.uwc.ca>
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> I am looking to purchase a dual cpu machine to run FreeBSD. I have only > used 2.2.8 so far but I like it. I want to spend at most $2000. I am not > interested in graphics and want to use this machine as a Samba server > for a small workgroup of Win9x machines. > > Any hardware recommendations would be much appreciated as would the best > FreeBSD release to use for rock solid platform. > Perhaps the most important decisions for me are: > 1. Single or dual CPU > 2. IDE or SCSI hard drive If it's a small network (like under 30 computers or so,) I personally wouldn't bother with a dual cpu system, sink the extra money into SCSI hard drives, you'll probally get better performance out of it. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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