Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:29:43 +1000 From: Andrew <mynet@uq.net.au> To: Mark Bannar-Martin <mbannar-martin@pearson-college.uwc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual CPU hardware Newbie question Message-ID: <37A002E6.2E9D4AF7@uq.net.au> References: <379E5A43.BA1A7423@pearson-college.uwc.ca>
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Probably the best and most innovative reasonably priced dual cpu Mb on the market would have to be the Abit BP6. http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bp6.htm Using this MB you could run dual Celeron 466's or even 400's and still have plenty of money to spend on HDD's. As for the HDD's if you have a VERY busy file server with lots of concurrent reading and writing then SCSI is the fastest and most reliable. For most applications though IDE can be just as good and allot cheaper. If you do go IDE however make sure you choose good quality IDE drives from makers such as IBM. Also with ide drives its often a good idea to get a cheap large ide drive as a backup drive. One such drive is the Quantum CX 18 gig. Im not sure what you consider a "small network" but you would probably find a celeron 366 with 128meg of ram and a good hard drive MORE than sufficient for your needs. If you wanted to you could spend the extra money on a backup machine. There is no point at all going to a P2 or P3 as they are not really any faster and much more expensive. Another good choice is the AMD K6 series. Cheers Andrew Mark Bannar-Martin wrote: > I have searched the lists but I did not find a satisfactory posting for > the following question: > > 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 > > Thank you, > Mark. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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