Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:20:21 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Jeroen Heijungs <Jeroen.Heijungs@Het-Muziektheater.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware Dell or BSDi Message-ID: <200012130820.eBD8KLK81066@earth.backplane.com> References: <200012130749.IAA08219@mail.hmth.nl>
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:Hello all,
:
:We are going to buy our first 1U 19" rack server (pizzacarton size), and
:probably there will be more in the future, they have to run FreeBSD
:4.1-stable.
:
:Normally we buy all our hardware at Dell, they also have this kind of
:servers, for instance the PowerApp Web 100, we have also seen this kind of
:servers form BSDi.com, they have FreeBSD preinstalled, and say they are
:completely optimized. But they are considerably more expensive.
:
:Can anyone tell me more about both these servers, how good is the BSDi
:machine (and the organization), does FreeBSD install on the Dell and so on?
:
:tia
:Jeroen Heijungs
:Het Muziektheater
:Amsterdam, The Netherlands
I don't know about the BSDi box, but we have a bunch of 2U VALINUX
boxes and a few 2U Dell 2450's. Both work quite well. We decided to
go with 2U because the 1U boxes wouldn't fit four 70GB scsi HD's, or
at least, not in a manner that I'd be comfortable with :-). I think the
VALINUX boxes have an edge over the DELLs in price.... a very
significant edge when you load high-end hardware into them. I've
noticed that DELL charges a ridiculous premium when you order their
boxes in big disk and/or memory configurations. However, the DELLs
use higher quality construction.
Unless you intend to load a rack completely full of machines and have
the cooling to match, 1U probably isn't worth the effort.
-Matt
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