freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - recomendations please for new freebsd development system

Hi

Like the title..

I need to build a new systemsupporting a substantial mysql database
application for a development team and also able to provide:

1. fast as possible compile times
2. raid  6 support with 6-10 terabytes of data storage
3. 1 terabyte fast data storage
4. 8G or more of ram
5. excellent graphics performance and capabilities with high quality
sound/video  supporting dual high resolution monitors and surround sound.
6. Back up facilities for 6-10 terabytes.

Would anyone be so bold as to make some recommendations for a reliable
motherboard/processor combination on the assumption that this is to be a
dual processor system running freebsd 6.0

Thanks in  advance

david

On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:58 AM, vizion wrote:
> Would anyone be so bold as to make some recommendations for a reliable
> motherboard/processor combination on the assumption that this is to  
> be a
> dual processor system running freebsd 6.0
You definitely want something Opteron based for this kind of data  
volume.  And I'd go with LSI Megaraid 4 channel SCSI RAID controller  
for your data connected to some Ultra 320  SCSI disks on multiple  
channels of the RAID card.

As for vendors, I've yet to find a stable vendor.  I have been  
working with one vendor trying to get a stable opteron system with 100 
+ GB RAID and so far have 1 out of 4 systems built for me be reliable  
and stable (and there were at least 3 motherboard and RAM swapouts on  
the failing systems too).  These were Tyan K8SR (s2881) motherboards,  
and one was S2882 motherboard.

Right now I'm evaluating Sun's opteron offerings for my future needs.

Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:58 AM, vizion wrote:
>
>> Would anyone be so bold as to make some recommendations for a reliable
>> motherboard/processor combination on the assumption that this is to  
>> be a
>> dual processor system running freebsd 6.0
>
>
> You definitely want something Opteron based for this kind of data  
> volume.  And I'd go with LSI Megaraid 4 channel SCSI RAID controller  
> for your data connected to some Ultra 320  SCSI disks on multiple  
> channels of the RAID card. 
I've just bought a Tyan K8SD Pro with dual 2GHz cpus, though with the 
SiS SATA RAID controller which isn't supported. I've got 4 200+Gb 
drives, two of which I've mirrored using gmirror, but that motherboard 
also has U320 SCSI support. I don't have any hard data suffice to say 
its very snappy, looking at the gstatus output its getting perhaps 30Mb 
per second transfer between drives, but I might have that wrong (and 
that might be pitiful, I'm not sure). I haven't really benchmarked it to
get the full details. I've setup 4 jails to be dev/test/prod 
environments and a sandboxed Samba server, and all in all its going very 
well so far. This is my first exposure to an Opteron system, so this 
isn't so much a recommendation as a "seems damn nice so far" :)

Cheers,
Joe