Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:23:04 -0500 From: "Ed Henderson" <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Server MB suggestions? Message-ID: <000d01c0b476$532a5e00$0464a8c0@pnt004>
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I am planning to use FreeBSD as my primary OS for an ISP that I am = starting. I am beginning my research for the best motherboard/hardware = to use for a production environment. One that is reliable and performs = well (with reliable being the number=20 one priority!). I plan to build the server myself. My background has = been in Solaris on Sun equipment so most of the hardware choices were = already made for me! Here are some questions that I have: 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good MB to use? Or what = chipset is the best and most stable with FreeBSD? I plan to use AMD = Athlon chips, tower case, IDE drives/peripherals, at least 256MB RAM. = Budget is limited since we are just beginning: approx. $1300 per server = (not including tape drive which is seperate see #3 below). Servers will = host typical ISP apps: DNS, RADIUS, mail, Apache, etc. 2. What IDE controllers do your recommend? Or would SCSI be better (but = more costly)? I want to use at least RAID1 mirroring for some = redundancy. 3. Any reliable tape drive suggestions? I have budgeted $1500 for a tape = drive. 4. I am most familiar with building MSWindows systems and most of the = time MB/chipsets require add'l software/drivers to be loaded when = installing MSWindows. Since most boards are designed with MSWindows in = mind does this present a problem when using FreeBSD as the OS? Thanks for the input! Ed. =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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