On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 21:54, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >17??? Wow.. WHat sort of box is that? 4U or just normal white boxes? > >Those must be Maxtor Drives. > > > > > Hitachi. Waited 4 months to get them. Seagate now has them too, at least > in theory. Getting your hands on those large drives is a different > matter. The box is a rack mount 5U 24 tray backplane unit with 4 > redundant Power Supplies from www.servercase.com. We just announced our 320GB using 107GB/pl(3 platters) technology. Not sure if Seagate or others are using 4 platters. > > >BTW, does anyone has any recommendation on Mainboards? Experience with > >TYAN mainboards? > > > Tried TYAN - don't like them. Why? > I'm setting up a dual cpu TYAN mainboard Since you don't like them, why set one up? Or is it cause of this one? > with 1 Gig of RAM on FC3 now to give to my mother-in-law as an email/web > surfing box. 1 Gig of RAM for web surfing!! wow.. Ram ain't that cheap. > Its not good enough for anything else. ASUS has been rock > solid for over 10 years. Again, You didn't elaborate why not. Anyway, I'm looking for boards which has/have >1 built in network cards. (those 4 in 1 PCI ethernets can't be found here) > > > I read a review on (somewhere) on the tyan mainboard > >and it's 2 on-board GIG ethernet. > > > ASUS has them too. Which One? Need to look them up. Does any have more than 2? Prefer to have 3. 1-modem 1-DMZ 1-LAN > All we spec are servers, so we could care less about sound, USB, onboard > bogus RAID, and high performance video. I know you've been on this list > a long time, so you know that those are the areas folks have the most > trouble with. Yep..Yep.. Yep.. It always pay to get an opinion on a board since most times dealers don't know if it Item X will work with Linux and I can't convince them to let me try it out. Thanks. (Now if you can tell me which Asus board that is.) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:08:23 up 1:02, 6 users, 0.49, 0.67, 0.63
