Thanks. The Sun/Oracle HCL mentions audio issues (not supported for the C602
chipset) , but I'm not at all concerned about that. I'll probably run SATA in a
RAIDZ3 configuration.
Reg
On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 11:46:47 AM CST, Sherman W
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm running OpenIndiana on a Z820 for pretty much the reason you specified -
good price-performance for an off lease system + upgrades via ebay. No real
issues I can think of, though I'm using a fairly limited subset of the hardware
-- all drives on the SAS controller, nVidia NVS 510 for the display, and both
NICs. If I remember correctly audio was working last time I checked, but can't
speak to the quality.
As a side note, Z840 heatsinks can be used on a Z820, and the extra heatpipes
on the Z840 heatsink should improve cooling and acoustics.
Sherman
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:54 PM Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm a number cruncher. I've got several nVidia Quadro FX1700/1800 cards so I'm
not concerned about those. They are well supported. This would really be more
compute server than workstation.
The appeal is having up to 512 GB of RAM and up to 20+ cores with a 10-20 TB
RAIDZ3 disk array for very serious number crunching on seriously large datasets.
I wouldn't expect issues, but I'd hate to drop $2k and have Linux rammed down
my throat.
Reg
On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 08:42:21 PM CST, Robert Mustacchi
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 3/3/21 6:33 PM, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss wrote:
> I'm contemplating buying a real beast as the off lease systems available via
> ebay, etc are quite staggering for the hardware you get.
>
> They are Solaris 11 certified as well as Linux supported, but I don't care
> for Linux and Larry wants far too much for Solaris 11. Which leaves the
> device driver problem. I know people are running OI on Z800s, but I've not
> heard anyone mention a Z820.
>
> Anyone have experience with one?
>
> One other question. memorystock.com offers 8 GB DIMMS for the Z400, but HP
> only supports 4 GB DIMMS. Has anyone run 8 GB DIMMS in a Z400?
The core platform based on the HP quickspecs should be reasonably well
supported. It will come down to the specifics of the particular
configuration (e.g. SATA vs. SAS, GPUs, other NICs, etc.). Of those
peripherals, I'd expect the most problems and complications with the GPU.
Robert
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