That's a cool unit. Could use something like that internal drive bay that supported SAS disks.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::.. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Hans, > > Take a look at this : > http://andysworld.org.uk/2011/08/25/skynet-ssdsupersan-hp-proliant-microserver-with-a-6-bay-hot-plug-sata-drive-bay/ > > Actually build this thing, running it as a backend storage at home for 2 > ESX machine, with about 25 VM's running on it. > Only difference I made was, fill the 6 extra bays with Samsung 840 pro's ( > sliced) and fill the internal slots with 4 Tb disk in mirror. > I add 8 Gb internal mem, a m1015 and an extra 2 Gb intel nic Will give a > cool 8 Tb net., maxes the Gb's out fully and does a very nice job in general > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:[email protected]] > Verzonden: vrijdag 7 februari 2014 17:50 > Aan: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Onderwerp: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server > > I looked at a HP N54L today: Costs nothing, but actually handles ECC > memory. Albeit very slow memory, and not very much. > > So, would it be reasonable to set this guy up with 4 2TB SATA disks, 8GB > 800MHz ECC memory and run some Illumos based version with ZFS. > > I was thinking of putting two 2.5" small boot disks (300GB???) using some > adapter in the optical drive slot, and 4 2TB disks in a raidz to provide > 6TB of storage with medium availability performance. > > Would this work?? Would the performance be good enough to be a home cloud > server for media and/or documents? > > Is Nexenta or OmniOS or SMARTOS better or easier to deply than OpenIndiana > for this setup? > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
