I don't have any 2850's but the 1850 I have has been running 6.0
since the BETA1, and last night just upgraded it to 6.1. No issues.
The PERC 4e/Si card is phenominally fast on this system (running 2
disk RAID1). I'd recommend you to run 6.1 as it is stable on all of
my Dell systems that run it
On Jun 30, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Dan Charrois wrote:
In any case, the server is used heavily all year except July, so
this is my time of year to take things apart, update software,
etc. And so I'm wondering - what is the recommended version of
FreeBSD I should be running if stability is of
Hi everyone.
I'm currently running the following:
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2850 rack mounted server, Dual 3.4 Ghz Xeon,
5 Gb memory
Hard Drives: LSILogic PERC 4e/Di, configured as RAID 5, with 3 X 40
Gb disks
OS: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 for amd64
It's sole purpose is to be an SQL server,
Hi Dan,
It's usually best to go with the current production release. As
such, I would recommend going with the latest release of FreeBSD 6.
FreeBSD 5 is now a legacy release, so support for it will probably
start to fall off sooner rather than later. Also, as I understand it,
version 5 was
