From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 13:03:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8236937B401 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6845343F75 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:03:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 4327 invoked by uid 106); 29 Jul 2003 20:07:58 -0000 Received: from 24-90-127-16.nyc.rr.com (HELO win2kpc1) (24.90.127.16) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 29 Jul 2003 20:07:58 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "David Raistrick" , "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:02:54 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2661) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;3) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20030729200344.6845343F75@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: dual Xeon motherboard of choice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:03:47 -0000 Supermicro is a good choice, but I would get a mobo with Intel NICs. 2U is the way to go because you get better cooling, more space for expansion and redundant power supplies, as you mentioned. You may also want to get SCA backplane with SAF-TE chip for true hot-swap capability. Not sure about Adaptec RAID, the drivers for them haven't been so good from what I've read in the past, but if that is no longer the case, the ability to add RAID via Adapatec zero channel card is a very nice feature. Meanwhile, I use Mylex with great results. Seagate SCSI drives are topnotch. -Simon On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:37:16 -0700 (PDT), David Raistrick wrote: > >Hey folks. > >I'm shopping around for a new development server. > >Probably will run a pair of 533 2.4Ghz Xeons and 512 megs of ram. An >Adaptec 2200S will eventually make its way into the box when the RAID >gets upgraded, with a 2100S running it to start. > >Only two disks will likely be housed in the system. I'm currently looking >at the Seagate Cheetah's, 36 gigs or so, 15k. > > >I'm looking at 2u or so systems, since the RAID is and will be housed in >its own case. I'm not space crunched so I don't see any reason to cram a >pair of Xeons into a 1u case! :) > > >Currently I'm looking at the X5DLR-8G2 powered Supermicro 6023L-8R or >6023P-8R. (the 6023P requires low profile cards only.) > >I'm also considering the SE7501WV2 powered Intel SR2300. > >I'll be taking advantage of the redundant power supplies in either of >these chassis. > > >Both of these chassis use SCA2 hotswap cages for the disks. > >Does anyone have any experience using either of these systems? Anything >to watch out for (SMP, the Broadcom NICs on the supermicro, etc)? Any >known issues? > >For the time being the system will run 4.8-RELEASE for some time. No >timeline is in place for migration to 5.x, though any current issues with >5.x and these systems would be good to know. :) > >Alternative system/chassis/board suggestions are also welcome. > >Thanks. > > >...david > >--- >david raistrick >drais@atlasta.net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >