Re: Server Hardware Recommendations


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).

I run a lot of supermicro and tyan based servers, with the older ones being PATA, the new being SATA, and I've had not a single problem with SATA under FreeBSD.

I am running 4-STABLE on the pata boxes, and the new SATA boxes I've been bringing up have been 6-STABLE boxes. FreeBSD has no problems with detecting the drives, or the RAID controllers (hardware and software based Promise, Highpoint and 3Ware), and I'm extremely pleased with the performance of these boxes.

I avoid any SII-based controllers like the plague, and have sparingly used onboard ICH chipsets (although a new batch of servers I'm looking at have those onboard, so I'll have more info then I guess).

I'm running some older Compaq DL360-G1 1U boxes with onboard SCSI Smart Array controllers, with 18 and 36GB drives in RAID-1 configs as well, and they are rock solid. They are our main MX machines, passing upwards of 30-40k e-mails per day, and have not had a single problem with them (aside from a hard drive dying, and it was a simple pull and plug hot-swap, it auto-rebuilt on the fly, no downtime).

I've used some Dells in the past as well, always rock solid, almost zero problems, although I haven't used any of their newer line 1-2U servers, mine were older 1200, 2300, 2450's.


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Regards, Ulf.

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-Gary
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