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On Thursday 20 January 2005 16:37, Marc Tooley wrote:
> Oh, I know all the base stuff is working well: but is there a specific
> off-the-shelf server platform that people feel comfortable running
> NetBSD on these days? Something from Dell or HP perhaps?

I'm running NetBSD 2.0 on a couple of Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers.  Rock=20
solid.  Great performers.   I've not got a lot disk, only around 300G each=
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and I'm not running RAID.   The 2650 is a 2U rack mount.  It has room for 5=
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drives. =20

I  just looked at the Dell site and the 2650 doesn't appear to be available=
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unit.   The 2850 does have hardware RAID, but that doesn't help much withou=
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more space for drives. =20

I don't know if this helps much, but I'm quite happy with my Dells. =20

=2D --Phil

p.s.  I'm also running a cluster of 20 Dell PowerEdge 750 1U small servers =
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compute servers.  They are running NetBSD-2.0 with no problems.   I wish th=
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same could be said of the other cluster I'm working with .... local build=20
based on an intel motherboard ... I wish I got Dells instead!  (I've had no=
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end of problems with those local build machines.)

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Phil Nelson                       NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org
e-mail: phil@cs.wwu.edu           Coda: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu
http://www.cs.wwu.edu/nelson=20
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