André Wienck wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:48:15 +0200, Frank Wille wrote:The servers should have RAID support for 2.5" disks, 1 GBit ethernet and low power consumption. And they have to be powerful enough to run as a (Apache/Zope) web-server, (Postfix) mail server and (MySQL) data base server at the same time.My suggestion would be to go for Sun Fire X**** series, depending on your storage needs. If you need a hell of a lot of storage, for example, the X4500 has space for tons of 2.5" disks IIRC. And Sun Fire X**** (amd64) servers tend to work perfectly well with NetBSD.
I forgot to mention "cheap". :) Although an X2100 should be available for 750 Euro ($1189), which is ok, and delivers more computing power than we need. And I like Sun! I will definitely consider it. Thanks for the suggestion. Another cheap and sufficient solution for a small server, which I found on the net, is the new VIA Epia SN18000G board. It should draw not much more than 30W with a VIA C7 at 1.8 GHz. A problem is the missing hardware RAID. The price is 219 Euro (without RAM). Any experience with NetBSD on the SN18000G? -- Frank Wille