On 2006/03/14 22:50, Srebrenko Sehic wrote: > On 3/14/06, edgarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I will be a very happy if those two servers (DL 145 and DL 385) will > > work. Means hardware will detect and work without strange things, like a > > slow hdd system, unusable raid or similar crap :) > > I would choose the SCSI version of DL145 G2, since SATA has > performance issue (around 6MB/sec read/write with dd). It could be > fixed in 3.9. I dunno.
SATA was still slow on these mid-feb (exact date in kernel/4613) and I didn't notice anything in changelogs since. NB the DL145 are neither hotswap nor simple-swap: you must open the case to gain access to the drives. On the + side, it does have IPMI and lights out (NIC and serial-based too if you get the single [shared] serial port assigned correctly in BIOS). With X2100, if you want >1 NIC you get to choose between nfe or a PCIE card. Various other vendors (fully-built and 'barebones' e.g. Tyan, Supermicro) have boxes which are more interesting for many purposes, I haven't had any to try OpenBSD on though. I'd be quite interested to hear any reports about the Supermicro AS1010S-MR (H8SSL-i board: Serverworks HT1000). As usual there's no one-size-fits-all..
