[olug] Server Motherboard Recomendations.

[Will Langford]

For an off the shelf desktop board to act as a server, I've had good luck
with gigabyte boards being extremely stable for very long periods of time.
I've not had any experience with newer AMD platforms since the K7 and can't
speak for them.

Naturally try to avoid anything that has active cooling on the chipset if
it's intentions are being server based.

Also - if you're taking this board with you south america - many south
american countries have very strict computer import customs.  Make sure
whatever you bring is brand new still in shrink wrap.  I've had friends who
shipped used servers that get pounded by hammers by the customs officials
before arriving on site.

For actual servers rather than building something out of desktop parts... I
can't help much - I don't deal in brand new hardware :(

-Will



On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Jesse Regier <jregier at cox.net> wrote:

> Ola' Olug,
>
> I will be traveling to Brazil next month to help a missionary friend out
> with a new server at a radio station.  We are planning to setup a  Samba
> server probably on Centos. (5.3 hopefully)  I haven't been in the
> whitebox server game for a while and need some recommendations for the
> the motherboard.   What has been working for you all lately?
>
> This will be their  first Linux box down there and I its a long way to
> go to support it, so I need things to work out of the box.  (No custom
> kernels etc.)
>
> I'm thinking it will probably be a Core2 Duo processor.  ATX
> Motherboard,  2 mirrored SATA drives. (Software raid - don't want a raid
> controller to go bad that they can't get a replacement for.)   The rest
> is pretty flexible.  The key is reliablity.
>
> We will be replacing an ancient Windows NT 4.0 server.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Jesse Regier
>
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