From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 18:46:17 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 BCAFF106564A for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:46:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin.wilcox@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f45.google.com (mail-pz0-f45.google.com [209.85.210.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FB28FC0A for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:46:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk33 with SMTP id 33so6831225pzk.18 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:46:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/PRj0b67WR+j0DtzGOaHbWaJHSHIOs2iCAnXz39RqQw=; b=EB+4tQz3w+dv5PBMtLUxgoBgj8mF5UznO1GPVzg8CdVsNItbpB5YQ8UshZO0vsZYoO FIc7lymqIPfKBBhh3E0Ee9Pl4S3ZG0Tl9NA4WMFhl9Ky90jyjBmDymevdvFFdDaneX41 Kwr49xJbO7+l2yODbWrY0lcjXbr94lArTn2WA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.154.6 with SMTP id b6mr21997wfe.378.1314296667405; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.57.100 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:24:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> References: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:24:27 -0400 Message-ID: From: Kevin Wilcox To: Tim Kellers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 18:46:17 -0000 On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45, Tim Kellers wrote: > Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room = at > work. =C2=A0I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 = =C2=A0has > anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? =C2=A0I'll be= using a > RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues with th= is > PERC? =C2=A0The specs indicate R610 will way outperform the old 2500. =C2= =A0The 2500 > currently supports mail (sendmail), web, db (pgsql and mysql), samba, etc= . I can't recommend the R610 highly enough. I have them as firewall/routers and DNS servers and they are fantastic. 8.2-RELEASE amd64. As Maxim pointed out, they use the mfi and bce drivers...I've added some Intel quad-port fibre NICs using the igb driver to the firewalls and haven't had any issues. My only suggestion is to pay attention to disk speed and RAID type if you're going to do heavy database work. I have a 200GB PostGreSQL database on RAID5 with 10K disks that crawls on data loads so I'm in the process of verifying to RAID 1+0 performance (we're neither CPU- nor memory-bound but the reported disk I/O via iostat is atrocious). dmesg for any of our R610s available on request if you want specifics. kmw