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http://www.hystou.com/products/fanless-mini-pc/c-2/ All the best, LRP -----Original Message----- From: "Robert Mustacchi" <r...@joyent.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 12:45pm To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Subject: Re: lab, small-potato production, and iscsi -- was Re: [smartos-discuss] Intel NUC with M2 drive support on SmartOS On 8/1/17 21:24 , Jan Paul wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > thx for the link, did you actually check that the 6 gen NUCs work as the > issue 727 states that sky lakes are affected as well. I had previously tested on what I thought was a Skylake based NUC, but I'll have to go back and confirm that. Robert > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 1, 2017, at 23:15, de...@hyltown.com wrote: >> >> i've received a few off-list responses in addition to the one below, and i >> appreciate them all! >> i've dismissed these in the past for multiple reasons, and after seeing usb3 >> supported wanted to >> reconsider. unfortunately, it looks like the newer ones are still unusable >> for a different reason. >> >> i'd really like something lab-worthy that can run head node and provision to >> itself, and potentially >> capable of production-ish use at my home office. i already have that, but >> the hardware is older >> and quite power-hungry, so i'm looking at the newer green-ish alternatives. >> >> any other suggestions? i've looked hard at the supermicro 5028D-TN4T (looks >> like freenas-mini) >> which sports the normal good stuff (ipmi and plenty of ecc ram) but it's not >> cheap. i've also looked >> at their tiny boxes (eg. SYS-E200-8D), thinking i could potentially leverage >> iscsi for zone/kvm >> secondary data volumes (not boot volumes) but haven't really researched >> whether that is an >> option. i know smartos doesn't support network storage, but this would be >> the zone/kvm os >> using a network protocol - if samba works (it does) i figure iscsi at least >> has a chance. >> >> thoughts? >> >> >> >> ----- On Aug 1, 2017, at 4:16 PM, Jan Paul <paul....@me.com> wrote: >> The one I picked allows for one M2 and one more 2.5" drive AFAIK. >> >> -Jan >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Aug 1, 2017, at 21:50, de...@hyltown.com wrote: >> >> thanks for that! >> >> do all the NUCs max out at 16GB memory? >> do any allow dual drives? >> >> ----- On Aug 1, 2017, at 3:20 PM, Brian Bennett <brian.benn...@joyent.com> >> wrote: >> You can refer to my NUC BoM list. >> >> http://a.co/76v1D0W >> >> It includes notes about which parts are compatible with which NUCs. >> >> -- >> Brian Bennett >> Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations >> Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com >> >> On Aug 1, 2017, at 1:58 AM, Jan Paul <paul....@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I’m getting together a home SmartOS box in form of intel NUC (NUC 5I7RYH) >> but I'm still debating the drive, is the M2 SATA/PCIe drive supported or do >> I need to use the 2.5 inch SATA drive for zones pool? >> >> Did someone try this one from crucial? >> http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/storage-ssd-mx300 (P/N: CT275MX300SSD4) >> >> Thx, for any pointers, cheers >> >> -Jan >> >> P.S. I went through the works for me wiki section but I couldn’t find out if >> someone is using the M2 drives :( >> >> >> >> http://www.listbox.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
