recomendations please for new freebsd development system

[Joe Shevland]

Vivek Khera wrote:

> On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:58 AM, vizion wrote:
>
>> Would anyone be so bold as to make some recommendations for a reliable
>> motherboard/processor combination on the assumption that this is to  
>> be a
>> dual processor system running freebsd 6.0
>
>
> You definitely want something Opteron based for this kind of data  
> volume.  And I'd go with LSI Megaraid 4 channel SCSI RAID controller  
> for your data connected to some Ultra 320  SCSI disks on multiple  
> channels of the RAID card. 

I've just bought a Tyan K8SD Pro with dual 2GHz cpus, though with the 
SiS SATA RAID controller which isn't supported. I've got 4 200+Gb 
drives, two of which I've mirrored using gmirror, but that motherboard 
also has U320 SCSI support. I don't have any hard data suffice to say 
its very snappy, looking at the gstatus output its getting perhaps 30Mb 
per second transfer between drives, but I might have that wrong (and 
that might be pitiful, I'm not sure). I haven't really benchmarked it to 
get the full details. I've setup 4 jails to be dev/test/prod 
environments and a sandboxed Samba server, and all in all its going very 
well so far. This is my first exposure to an Opteron system, so this 
isn't so much a recommendation as a "seems damn nice so far" :)

Cheers,
Joe