Recommended SMP Hardware
Nathan Vidican
nvidican at wmptl.com
Thu Apr 5 17:58:53 UTC 2007
Don O'Neil wrote:
> I'm getting ready to obsolete one of my old dual P2-800 servers and wanted
> to get some suggestions from you all... I'm going to be building a new
> server to replace it and need more power, but not a TON more power...
> Something along the lines of dual 2.5 GHz processors with 4 GB RAM should be
> more than enough.
>
> Any one have some suggestions for lower priced dual processor motherboards
> and CPU combos? Athlon, Xeon, P4, whatever, doesn't really matter. I'd like
> to hear from some of you who are actually using certain combos in production
> and your experiences (good or bad) with them and FreeBSD 6.2.
>
> Thanks!
>
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I guess that all depends on what you mean by 'lower priced'... We're
using home-built dual AMD Opteron boxes that have performed excellent
over the last two years. Mind you, when we built them here they were a
bit more pricey than they can be had for now - but even then complete in
rack mount chassis with ECC registered memory and a terabyte of RAID 5
using 3Ware Escalades - we still came in under $4500 (Canadian; approx
$3200 US at the time). We based them on MSI motherboards (K8D-Master's
which have S-ATA or SCSI built in), using WDC RAID Edition S-ATA drives
and 3Ware 9500 series controllers (which were VERY new at the time ~
$500 /each).
If I had to do it all over again - I'd go the same route, although
perhaps with a slightly cheaper motherboard (the ones we used were
$720/each and we utilized very few of the on-board goodies - they
support up to 24GB ram, we've got 4gb in them so kinda overkill). Also -
most newer boards support dual-core cpu's as well... if you're looking
for top-notch, but bottom dollar SMP - try a higher end single opteron
board with dual core CPU.
Just my two cents - hope it helps. BTW - we're running 6.1 - 6.2 and
variants on them now with no difficulties.
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Nathan Vidican
nvidican at wmptl.com
Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/
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