Big thanks! I think I'll also buy one before long. The power savings alone should be worth it over lifetime.
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:03:21PM -0800, Krist van Besien wrote: > I just bought one. :-) > > My imprssions: > > - Installed Nexentastor community edition in it. All hardware was recognized > and works. No problem there. I am however rather underwhelmed by the > Nexentastor system and will problably just install Opensolaris on it (b134) > this evening. I want to use the box as a NAS, serving CIFS to clients (a > mixture of MAC and Linux machines) but as I don't have that much > administration to do in it I'll just do it on the command line and forgo > fancy broken guis... > - The system is wel build. Quality is good. I could get the whole motherboard > tray out without needing to use tools. It comes with 1GB of ram that I plan > to upgrade. > - The system does come with four HD trays and all the screws you need. I > plunked in 4 2T disks, and a small SSD for the OS. > - The motherboard has a minisas connector, which is connected to the > backplane, and a seperate SATA connector that is intended for an optical > drive. I used that to connect a SSD which lives in the optical drive bay. > There is also an internal USB connector you could just put a USB stick in. > - Performance under nexentastor appears OK. I have to do some real tests > though. > - It is very quiet. Can certainly live with it in my office. (But will move > it in to the basement anyway. > . A nice touch is the eSata connector on the back. It does have a VGA > connector, but no keyboard/mouse. This is completely legacy free... > > All in all this is an excellent platform to build a NAS on. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
