From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 17:30:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A1C1065674 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:30:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mail-gw6.njit.edu (mail.njit.edu [128.235.251.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D37F8FC0C for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.maestro.njit.edu (dhcp114-27.njit.edu [128.235.114.27]) by mail-gw6.njit.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p7PGjIUi006176 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:45:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:45:08 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110822 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: shopping for a new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:30:36 -0000 Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at work. I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 has anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? I'll be using a RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues with this PERC? The specs indicate R610 will way outperform the old 2500. The 2500 currently supports mail (sendmail), web, db (pgsql and mysql), samba, etc. I Googled and found a bunch of somewhat older posts that showed some NIC issues and some PERC issues but it looked like most issues had been corrected by the beginning of 2011. Does anyone have any recent duccess/failure stories? I'd probably be looking to run 8.2 RELEASE AMD or 9.0 AMD when it becomes release. Thanks Tim