1. Seeking advice on new system purchase
Christmas season is right ahead of us, and it's time to reward oneself,
so I'm planning a purchase of a new box to run primarily FreeBSD. While
researching individual components, I have built a short list of
questions I was hoping more experienced FreeBSD users could help me
with. First, the purpose of the box. It is going to be a workstation
mainly, with light server use, no USENET or web (maybe to a limited
degree, to experiment with some Intranet solutions), but with quite a
bit of networking going on and a reasonable amount of compiling (and a
lot of documenting :-). Here are the questions:
1. What is the perceived speedup between regular Pentium (say, 166 which
I'm using now) and PPro (180 or 200)? Is it worth the extra expense?
2. I have read good reviews of the latest Diamond 3D 3000 (VRAM) card.
Since the new release of FreeBSD includes v.3.2 of XFree86, I've
checked the docs but didn't see a specific mention of that card.
Does anyone know if it's supported under a different name? If so,
has anyone had a chance to use it and see how it performs?
3. Within a foreseable future I would like to add a SCSI tape and
perhaps even a writeable CDROM (primarily for use with another OS).
Would Adaptec 3940 be appropriate for such a task? (to split the
primary hard drive from tape and CD). Or would it be better to buy
two separate 2940s? Am I misunderstanding the purpose of 3940?
4. I was attracted by the low price of IBM SCSI 2 GB 32160 drives. Are
they any good?
5. For the type of use I have described, does it make much of a
difference to go to UW for SCSI?
And one more question not directly related to FreeBSD. The Viewsonic
P815 got the "Best of Comdex" award. Has anyone used it? I've never
used Viewsonics before, but the 21" monitor with good sharpness does
appeal to me (a lot of writing).
I appreciate all and any comments.
t.
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