Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:29:49 -0400 From: "John Straiton" <jsmailing@clickcom.com> To: "'Chad Albert'" <chadalbert@mchsi.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Server Hardware Message-ID: <002801c25da6$ab5f0280$fe16c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> In-Reply-To: <007d01c25da6$2f5d8e90$e8b41595@SPGCALBERTA>
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We've had a lot of success with Dell hardware, however the RAID controllers have consistently been a problem. With the older hardware, they would sell AMI & Adaptec controllers which of course meant that if you weren't careful, you'd get an Adaptec and not be able to use it, and more recently we got a 1650 or 2650 (can't remember which) but it used a controller the on prior models (1550,2550) we could just do a firmware downgrade on to get it to be detected by the install program but with the newer models they didn't have the downgrade firmware available to use. Out of about 3 dozen dell servers from 1U up to the 6U versions we've never had a problem outside of the RAID controllers on versions of FreeBSD post 4.X (whenever they added PERC controllers) John Straiton jks@clickcom.com Clickcom, Inc 704-365-9970x101 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Chad Albert > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 1:26 PM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: Server Hardware > > > I am looking to set up a VPN service for my customers using > FreeBSD. I am also looking at OpenBSD, but I am more > familiar with FreeBSD. Does anyone have any hardware system > suggestions for me. Fault tolerance is a MUST. My > preference is a fault tolerant Dell system, but I am open to > any suggestions. What I want to avoid is ordering boxes then > finding out that I overlooked one small piece of hardware in > the HCL. What have you ordered and been happy with in the past? > > > > > ========================================= > Microsoft "Where do you want to go today?" > Linux "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > FreeBSD "Are you guys coming or what?" > ========================================= > > > 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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