I'd like to set up a home fileserver to centrally manage all my important documents and files and backups. I'm pretty technical, but more of a Cisco IOS guy than a Solaris admin or Unix whiz. I need some advice on how to setup the hardware for this box...
My choices are to use an old Dell PowerEdge 2200 server that has two PII Xeons (300MHz) with 128MBRAM, a Dell Dimension 4100 (1GHz P3, 512MB RAM) or to build a new box with a spare ATX case I've got. I've got two 250GB SATA drives that I would use and I want to add two or three more 250GB drives to create a RAIDZ set. My first inclination is that I would be better off to buy a new motherboard that has SATA ports, Gig-E, etc. Install 1GB of RAM (I hear RAIDZ likes RAM) and be done. Since this box will only be a fileserver, can anyone recommend an inexpensive motherboard with solid Solaris support? The Asus P5B-E is available open-box from newegg.com for about $120. This motherboard has 6 internal SATA ports and 1 PATA port that I could use for the boot drive. I thought I might pair that board with a P4 Prescott for $85 since I probably don't need dual cores. http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131070R http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819116230 Add in RAM, and I'm at $300 for a very nice MB, CPU, RAM setup. But the main question is... will this play nice with Solaris 10? This message posted from opensolaris.org
