On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 12:14 PM Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > (NOTE: this is NOT a spammy `selling' msg) > > See this ebay offering: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Z820-Xeon-2X-E5-2640-6Core-64GB-RAM-180GB-SSD-3TB-Nvidia-400-Workstation/143348010960?hash=item2160350fd0:g:Wr8AAOSwba1dG7FX > > I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if this item seems almost > unreasonably cheap, like maybe it's been hit with a sledgehammer on > the side you can't see. . . hehe > > I'd really like to hear some opinions. > > I have installed OI and then hipster on older HP work station (HP > xw8600) (Running for a couple of yrs now) but have run into a few > things. One being that the xw8600 workstation will not recognize HHD > bigger than 2tb. (Surprisingly OI-hipster still recognizes the > several 3tb hhd I have on it and is able to use them anyway) > > Is it likely I would have serious problems installing hipster on > the ebay offering . Are there issues installing hipster on ssd? >
I've run both OI and Solaris 11.3 on Z820s and Z840s without any major issues. I have never tried installing on an SSD for these systems, but with a 3 TB HDD it is normally not an issue. - Ron _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
