Greg Troxel writes: > I'm looking for a mini to mid tower, with: > > - fairly beefy CPU for package and base system builds > - metal case for RF noise mitigation > - UL listed power supply > - quiet when not compiling, but doesn't have to be silent > > - 64G of RAM, preferably expandable to 128G, even more preferably by > adding later and not discarding > > - GbE > > - basic sound > > - graphics sufficient to run X on a single biggish monitor, say > 2560x1440, so that I can run firefox, gimp, qgis, and xterm. > > - perhaps CDRW/DVDRW, but if that's USB external and works with netbsd > that's ok > > - space for at least 3 2.5" SSDs. no need for spinning disks. > smaller/faster SSD slots a bonus > > - works well with NetBSD 10 (am running 9, but about to upgrade > anyway) > > - no need to deal with binary blobs
Not a recommendation, rather an FYI datapoint if anything, but FWIW I recently converted one of my last non-NetBSD systems to NetBSD (previously a holdout as I had plans to use it for number crunching with CUDA, which doesn't work natively under NetBSD and likely can't be passed through to Xen guests either--not that I'm even running Xen--but I digress). It's an antiquated HP Z820 that nevertheless seems to check a lot of the above boxes with 2x Xeon CPU modules (upgraded from 1) and 22 cores and 128GB of registered RAM (increased from 64GB), 2x GbE, a case I really like with 7 (!) bays (combo of 5.25" external and 3.5" internal ones), and IIRC an NVIDIA Quadro K4000 GPU (to which I added another more powerful one for number crunching that I'm not using ATM); although it's not exactly quiet. I must admit I haven't done much with it since setting it up, as I rarely need that kind of power, but I could boot it up and get you a dmesg if helpful.
