Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:52:50 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Live-Wire <livewire@echotrace.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network Message-ID: <cb5206420510090252r42509b59k28a1ca306b763489@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4348E078.8050602@echotrace.com> References: <4348E078.8050602@echotrace.com>
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On 10/9/05, Live-Wire <livewire@echotrace.com> wrote: > I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on > my home network; dns, qmail, > apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, > like apache, will also be exposed to > the internet, but only for the use of friends and family. And most > important, I'm doing this all on the cheap - > for less than$600 (and the less, the better). I was wondering what sort > of hardware setups people could > recommend? Priceis the #1 consideration, followed by reliability, then > speed. But that doesn't mean > I want to neglect the latter two- what sort of specs should I be > shooting for? What is necessary for the kind > of activities I want to do. > > I'm hellbent on AMD, and the Sempron 3100+ (754) is looking pretty > sharp. I have a GeForce4 Ti 4600 lying > around that I can stick in, but because I want to use 2 SATA 150 > hardrives in RAID 1, finding an AGP 4X > mobo with 754 and SATA w/ RAID 1 is neigh impossible. So it looks like > my best bet is to find > a mobo with onboard gigabit ethernet, video, and sound (only the first > of which is important), but that still > limits me apropos the 754 cpu and the SATA. > > So again, this is a nice opportunity to buy hardware specifically > tailored for what I am using it for - I have zero > concern for expandability. What is the best fit? > > Thanks - > JNK > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > I have Gigabyte K8VT800 Pro motherboard (http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-K8VT800%20Pro.ht= m) and Sempron 2500+ (256Kb cache, 64-bit, SSE3) on my file-server. For me - it's a wonderful combination. With an updated BIOS firmware it supports up to 10 disk devices (8 IDE + 2 SATA), Gigabit network and is rock-solid. I run FreeBSD/i386 on it, but I tried amd64 before - and it works great. It's quite cheap ($60 for the board, $60 for the box version of the CPU), and it certainly rocks, believe me. BTW, it should support your Ti 4600! Cheerz, Andrew P.
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