Don O'Neil wrote:
I'm getting ready to obsolete one of my old dual P2-800 servers and wanted
to get some suggestions from you all... I'm going to be building a new
server to replace it and need more power, but not a TON more power...
Something along the lines of dual 2.5 GHz processors with 4 GB RAM should be
more than enough.
Any one have some suggestions for lower priced dual processor motherboards
and CPU combos? Athlon, Xeon, P4, whatever, doesn't really matter. I'd like
to hear from some of you who are actually using certain combos in production
and your experiences (good or bad) with them and FreeBSD 6.2.
Thanks!
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I guess that all depends on what you mean by 'lower priced'... We're
using home-built dual AMD Opteron boxes that have performed excellent
over the last two years. Mind you, when we built them here they were a
bit more pricey than they can be had for now - but even then complete in
rack mount chassis with ECC registered memory and a terabyte of RAID 5
using 3Ware Escalades - we still came in under $4500 (Canadian; approx
$3200 US at the time). We based them on MSI motherboards (K8D-Master's
which have S-ATA or SCSI built in), using WDC RAID Edition S-ATA drives
and 3Ware 9500 series controllers (which were VERY new at the time ~
$500 /each).
If I had to do it all over again - I'd go the same route, although
perhaps with a slightly cheaper motherboard (the ones we used were
$720/each and we utilized very few of the on-board goodies - they
support up to 24GB ram, we've got 4gb in them so kinda overkill). Also -
most newer boards support dual-core cpu's as well... if you're looking
for top-notch, but bottom dollar SMP - try a higher end single opteron
board with dual core CPU.
Just my two cents - hope it helps. BTW - we're running 6.1 - 6.2 and
variants on them now with no difficulties.
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Nathan Vidican
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Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/
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