Hello, We are about to buy 1U rack mount server for the office. The server room is small and close to meeting room so we have two priorities:
1)Good FreeBSD support. 2) Low noise level (!) Speed is not a priority, system load will be small. Which one will you recommend ? HP DL160G5 E5405 2x1GB 2x250GB NHP-SATA CD-DVD Combo 3y carepack;Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor E5405 (2.00 GHz, 80W, 1333MHz FSB);Supports up to 64 GB of PC2-5300 (DDR2-667) and up to 32 GB of PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) fully buffered DIMMs (DDR2-667) with Advanced ECC; Two embedded NC105i PCIe Gigabit Server Adapters;Five USB ports (two front, one internal, two rear);650W Power Supply (Non-Hot Plug, Autoswitching);Rack (1U) VS: IBM x3250 M2 1 x Xeon Q3330 QuadCore 2.66GHz/1333MHz FSB Hyper Threading with EM64T, 6MB Cache, 2x1024MB ECC DDR2, 2 x 250 GB SATA/SAS HDD HotSwap, OpenBay Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Hot Swap, Integrated RAID-1, 1x351W, DVD/CD-RW, Dual LAN 10/100/1000, 3 year on-site warranty VS: DELL™ PowerEdge™ R200 1 Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X3210 2.13 GHz / 1066 MHz FSB / 8 MB SAS 6/i Integrated RAID Controller Card for SATA and SAS Hard Drives, RAID 0,1 2GB 800MHz ECC Unbuffered DDR-2 SDRAM 2 х 250GB, SATA, 3.5-inch, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive (Cabled) Slim DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive R200 PCI-E Riser Card (2 x PCI Express slots) dual embedded Broadcom® Gigabit Ethernet NIC Sliding Rack Kit for Dell Racks (Rapid Rails) Prices are almost the same :-) Please recommend. Thanks in advance. Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
