Quoting Martin Nilsson <martin_at_gneto.com>: > eculp_at_bafirst.com wrote: >> Does anyone know of any outstanding issues with the Dell PowerEdge >> 2900 that comes with the >> >> PERC 5/i disk controller >> Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC's >> 300GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 10K RPM Hard Drive >> Memory 4GB 533MHz (4x1GB) > > Why don't you buy a system from a vendor who knows FreeBSD and can > tell you what parts will work and how well supported they are? > > There is a long list at: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html > > Dell is for people who don't care what's inside the box and they tend > to run Windows! Martin, Thanks for your answer, I've purchased from freebsd venders and I agree in part but I have also run dell servers for years and they, both the hardward and the company, have given me very good service. In this specific case the customer is a large corporation that is not in the U.S. and they need both name recognition and acceptable local service and dell provides both. I really don't have a choice and even if I did I'm not sure I would want to look elsewhere for this company. Thanks again for the suggestion, ed > > /Martin >Received on Mon Jul 24 2006 - 12:23:23 UTC
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