Hello, I am trying to find systems that can be used _well_ with OpenBSD. The applications are "middle class" BGP routers with hopefully more than 500kpps sustained, and web and database servers. With RAID, I'm currently undecided whether I should stick with RAIDframe and be able to use smartmontools on the individual disks, or if I should go for hardware RAID instead and fly blind (or which ways do I have to monitor the health status of disks and RAID in that case w/o disrupting normal operation?). The server stuff is intended to run 24x7 and continuously push several MBit/s using complicated PHP and MySQL dances for each request...
If you have suggestions about suitable machines from suitable ("clean") vendors, I'm very interested to hear. Unfortunately, the user requires big-name stuff. I'm also very much interested in your opinion about this gear: http://www.movidis.com/index.asp TIA! Best, --Toni++