On 6/1/14, 7:27 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Just looking for some opinions on an ebay machine I am thinking of > buying for an oi zfs server > > I do not know enough about specs and so forth to tell if this is an ok > purchase. > > Understand that my usage is strictly home lan... so very light and > nothing commercial. > > I want a machine that won't have all kinds of unruly hic-ups and etc. > > I don't mean like worn out hardware etc but just not being that > compatible for my intended use. > > Any suggestions are welcome but also understand that I want something > I can just install oi on and get going so not not (at this particular > time) interested in building up a machine myself. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Poweredge-6650-Enterprise-Server-2-x-Intel-Xeon-1-5-GHz-8-GB-/261423732486?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item3cde119706
That huge box is likely to cost you in electricity per year what its purchasing price is on ebay. In your place, I'd rather spend half of that $600 on an HP Microserver N54L. Don't underestimate what Microserver can do either. Those things are capable of taking up to 16GB of ECC DRAM & easily saturating 1 gig Ethernet when operating as a file server. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
