Hi! > Am 18.08.2017 um 14:03 schrieb Stefan Hagen <freebsd-stable-l...@textmail.me>: > > * Patrick M. Hausen wrote: >>> Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French <petefre...@ingresso.co.uk>: >>> The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably >>> cheaply [...] >>> Not sure about ECC memory support there though. >> >> They do support ECC, no problem. >> >> They are available with different CPU configurations from >> as Pete said remarkably cheap Celeron D based systems >> up to Xeon CPUs. > > I've just sold my Microserver Gen8 (Xeon) just recently. > It's a beautiful little machine, but I didn't make me happy in the long run. > > Reasons: > - Limited to 8GB Ram in total > - Only 4 HDDs > - JBOD support is not great > - Harddrives are never going to sleep (not supported) > > Installing FreeBSD was harder than expected. The machine refused to boot > FreeBSD > from the internal non-raid SATA ports. I didn't try FreeNAS though.
smbios.system.product="ProLiant MicroServer Gen8" CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220L V2 @ 2.30GHz (2294.80-MHz K8-class CPU) 16 GB RAM, FreeBSD installation was no problem at all. What do you mean by "JBOD support"? Disable RAID in the systems BIOS setup, put ZFS on AHCI drives ... ahci0: <Intel Cougar Point AHCI SATA controller> port 0x10c0-0x10c7,0x10c8-0x10cb,0x10d0-0x10d7,0x10d8-0x10db,0x10e0-0x10ff mem 0xfacd0000-0xfacd07ff irq 17 at device 31.2 on pci0 ahci0: [ITHREAD] ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 6 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0 ahcich0: [ITHREAD] ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <WDC WD2000FYYZ-01UL1B0 01.01K01> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada0: Command Queueing enabled ada0: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) This is our office file, print and mail server. No FreeNAS this time, just plain FreeBSD. Patrick
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