Re: Server Hardware Recommendations

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:40:36PM -0400, david raistrick wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:

The company I work at started with Supermicro when we moved to Linux
3+ years ago but we switched quickly to HP Proliant DL. To me the
DL servers are just great in all aspect with just the little thing
of HP not providing management software for FreeBSD.

Are you using any of the SATA models? How are they working out?

I've yet to have a good experience with SATA and FreeBSD......

..david

We only got 1 server with a SATA drive, a DL145. It is our sniffer
box (runs FreeBSD), but the disk isn't used much in it.

All the others have SCSI (U320 or SAS).

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Regards, Ulf.

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