recomendations please for new freebsd development system

[Vivek Khera]

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.

As for vendors, I've yet to find a stable vendor.  I have been  
working with one vendor trying to get a stable opteron system with 100 
+ GB RAID and so far have 1 out of 4 systems built for me be reliable  
and stable (and there were at least 3 motherboard and RAM swapouts on  
the failing systems too).  These were Tyan K8SR (s2881) motherboards,  
and one was S2882 motherboard.

Right now I'm evaluating Sun's opteron offerings for my future needs.