Any recommended Intel server motherboards?

[Antony Mawer]

The Intel boards all in all tend to be pretty well supported... we run
a number of S3200SHL boards (about to be EOL'd I believe) and older
S2000 series in production without any hitches. The basic Intel
soft-RAID on the entry level boards should be avoided (use gmirror or
similar if need be).

If you are looking at any of the boards with onboard SAS, this is
usually an LSI Logic based chipset (mfi driver from memory) and is
fine as far as RAID reliability goes (at least in our experience,
YMMV)...

-- Antony

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Clifton Royston <cliftonr at lava.net> wrote:
>  A client is asking me to recommend hardware for a mailserver; they're
> an OEM and whitebox builder, and would prefer to use an Intel server
> board which seems reasonable.  Are there any particularly recommended
> current models?
>
>  I seem to recall that Intel's RAID hardware is not that reliable, so
> I am assuming I should either recommend they use plain SATA or SAS
> drives, or steer them to an external RAID system with dedicated
> controller.  If that's changed, it would be nice to know.
>
> Parameters:
>
>  The system will not be very high-throughput, primarily fronting and
> acting as relay and storage queue for initially about 5000 mailboxes in
> 100+ domains.  All spam filtering will be handled on another box.
>
>  -- Clifton
>
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