> 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.
Yes. Note that you could also put in 2x 8GB = 16 GB. I am not
really sure what you mean by "very slow". I use Kingston PC3-10600
CL9 ECC 8 GB DIMMs.
> 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.
Do you really need the mirrored boot?
> Would this work??
Yes, altough you would have to find a sixth SATA connector for
the second small boot disk, or you would have to loop the eSATA
port back inside the case.
> Would the performance be good enough to be a home
> cloud server for media and/or documents?
Yes.
> Is Nexenta or OmniOS or SMARTOS better or easier to deply than
> OpenIndiana for this setup?
I am using OmniOS, with a 128 GB Samsung SSD as boot and cache, and
four 3TB disks in the four slots:
<nfs:/tmp,1597> cat /etc/release
OmniOS v11 r151006
Copyright 2012-2013 OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
<nfs:/tmp,1598> zpool list -v
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
dpool 5.44T 2.67T 2.77T - 49% 1.00x ONLINE -
mirror 2.72T 1.33T 1.39T -
c1t0d0 - - - -
c1t2d0 - - - -
mirror 2.72T 1.33T 1.39T -
c1t1d0 - - - -
c1t3d0 - - - -
cache - - - - - -
c1t5d0s6 87.1G 3.36M 87.1G -
rpool 32G 8.87G 23.1G - 27% 1.00x ONLINE -
c1t5d0s0 32G 8.87G 23.1G -
Easy to deploy (except the "slice the SSD up into rpool and cache"
bit). Works very well.
Regards -- Volker
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