Hi folks, I'm shopping for a cheap uniprocessor rackmount server which will be running exclusively 4.9-RELEASE. It must have a fast processor / memory bus, and possibly an integrated dual gigabit copper NIC attached to PCI-X bus (plain PCI is not an option). SCSI / RAID stuff is not necessary - IDE will do fine. It seems that both IBM xSeries 305 and Dell PowerEdge 650 might fit... Does anyone have experiences with running FreeBSD on those machines? Any other alternatives worth considering? Thanks, Marko
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Marko Zec wrote:> > I'm shopping for a cheap uniprocessor rackmount server which will be > running exclusively 4.9-RELEASE. It must have a fast processor / memory > bus, and possibly an integrated dual gigabit copper NIC attached to > PCI-X bus (plain PCI is not an option). SCSI / RAID stuff is not > necessary - IDE will do fine. > > It seems that both IBM xSeries 305 and Dell PowerEdge 650 might fit... > Does anyone have experiences with running FreeBSD on those machines? > Any other alternatives worth considering?I use IBM xSeries 330, powered by 5.1-R and works very well. -- Regards, /"\ ascii ribbon campaign Sergey "ozz" Osokin, \ / against html mail http://ozz.pp.ru/ X and news / \
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Marko Zec wrote: > > > > I'm shopping for a cheap uniprocessor rackmount server which will be > > running exclusively 4.9-RELEASE. It must have a fast processor / memory > > bus, and possibly an integrated dual gigabit copper NIC attached to > > PCI-X bus (plain PCI is not an option). SCSI / RAID stuff is not > > necessary - IDE will do fine. > > > > It seems that both IBM xSeries 305 and Dell PowerEdge 650 might fit... > > Does anyone have experiences with running FreeBSD on those machines? > > Any other alternatives worth considering? > > I use IBM xSeries 330, powered by 5.1-R and works very well.I have an x335 here, which apart from the keyboard not working due to ACPI wierdness, functions properly otherwise. Works as expected with ACPI disabled. The mouse doesn't work with SuSE 9, so its not a problem limited to FreeBSD. :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org