James,
I have a similar situation in a home office. I've got a Sun V40Z
running 151a7 with 2 internal and 6 external mirrored zfs drives to give
me 14 TB of storage. It runs my mail, dns, web, dhcp, router,
multi-media streaming, nightly backup, networked storage and other
(several Mac, Linux and Windows machines) services. I also use it to
run regression testing of the software I develop, probably the only
thing that pushes it in any way. If it wasn't for the flaky electric
grid system it would have been running for at least a year. However,
blackouts lasting several days caused me to shut it down a few times in
the past year. Currently, it's been up for 40 days. Since it's the
router between my ISP and my internal network, it is critical that it is
stable. It hasn't failed me yet (knock on wood).
I should take a picture and show it with it's 8 sata cables draping out
the back connected to 2 disk cabinets, it's quite a DIY sight. I wish I
could find a less power-hungry and quieter machine to replace the v40z
at a reasonable price. Being able to put the disks in the same cabinet
would be a plus. :)
Gary
On 03/28/2013 11:35 PM, James Dickens wrote:
Guess I have to add in my N40L story, use it for my home used for both NFS
and CIFS, rsync, ftp, and scp file transfers, and dns no issues what so
ever serving isos via nfs to my esxi hosts, have a few vmware guests using
nfs for datastore on esxi. patched it a few months ago and never rebooted,
to get the latest bits. 2x 2TB drives mirrored and 250GB sata drive for
rpool. routinely see 60-80MB/s filetransfers over all file transfer
protocols. Yes home file servers can be classified when 2 adult children at
home with computers, and wife (netbook) plus me doing telecommuting 5 days
a week down time gets annoying.
OpenIndiana (powered by illumos) SunOS 5.11 oi_151a7 October 2012
n40l:~$ uname -a
SunOS n40l 5.11 oi_151a7 i86pc i386 i86pc
n40l:~$ uptime
10:28pm up 608 day(s), 22:22, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.36, 0.26
n40l:~$
James
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