Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:23:34 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General Questions Message-ID: <01011112233404.01893@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3A5DC440.963E9830@mail.iowna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101110808250.74730-100000@squid.tznet.com> <3A5DC440.963E9830@mail.iowna.com>
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On Thursday January 11, 2001 09:33, Bill Moran wrote: > Scott Pilz wrote: > > In the long run, I hope to switch these Sun boxes to BSD, I'm > > *sold* on BSD, atleast for ISP aspects, is this a good idea to > > switch, or is it worth while learning another OS because Sun offers > > more than BSD? > > Probably not. I don't think there is anything that will run on a Sun > box better than the Sun OS. I could be wrong, however. I would disagree here. I hear that OpenBSD runs extremely well and perhaps even more stable than SunOS on Sun hardware. It can only use one processor in a dual proc machine though. NetBSD should run well on a multiprocessor Sun machine. Though I hear SunOS still does multiprocessing slightly faster than NetBSD. > > Looking for the *best* hardware to buy for FreeBSD. Any paticular > > motherboards, hard drives, proccessors that seem to work better > > with FreeBSD than others? Here are a few hardware recommendations that came through the lists recently for good SMP boxes. I did not write these and I can tell who did if you ask me. I just did not want to do so without their permission. "---------- we have several Intel L440GX+ (Lancewood) mobo here, which I would definitelly recommend. The board supports 2x1GHz PIII CPUs and max. 2GB PC100 RAM. We have absolutelly no problems, issues with this mobo running FreeBSD 4.0/4.2. It has the following onboard components: - Adaptec Ultra2/Ultra-Wide dual SCSI (LVD, 40/80 MB/s) - Intel 82559 Network Adapter (EtherExpress Pro 100) - Cirrus 2MB VGA - 6 PCI Slots If you want Quantum HD, then look for the new 10K, it's much faster than the Atlas and really quiet. -- my workstation is a dual PIII-550 on an Asus P2B-D with 256 MB ram. i've had ZERO problems with this hardware setup. its an older chipset (440BX) but rock-damned-solid. makes one HELLUVA workstation (: i guess, in general, i've always had GREAT luck with ASUS mobos. they just work, they're solid, and have a very configurable bios. so, i can't speak for any of the newer chipsets in regards to SMP, but, its hard to go wrong with Asus, IMHO. ---------------" > > We may be looking at Raid hot-swapable > > drives, is this a good idea? if so anyone running any paticular > > hardware we should purchase? If you need to protect your data and downtime would be costly enough to justify the price of a hotswap RAID array, then go for it. If you can live with the hour or less downtime like Bill and many others can, then skip the hot swap capability. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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