Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding a suitable server to run Solaris/ZFS as a disk server

2006-07-08 Thread David Magda
On Jul 9, 2006, at 01:05, Richard Elling wrote: Also this week, I noticed that the HCL is falling behind. There are many systems which will work that aren't listed. The problem is that a motherboard design has about a 6 month market window. Rather than worry about specific boards, look f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding a suitable server to run Solaris/ZFS as a disk server

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Elling
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: So I'm looking to build a home disk server (with some database and web activity, and email) using ZFS and hence Solaris, and I'm finding it hard to locate hardware that's known to work. Something like a Sun Ultra-20/X2100? These use a fairly generic Opteron-based moth

[zfs-discuss] Finding a suitable server to run Solaris/ZFS as a disk server

2006-07-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
So I'm looking to build a home disk server (with some database and web activity, and email) using ZFS and hence Solaris, and I'm finding it hard to locate hardware that's known to work. I need a tower server, and something with office-level rather than lab-level noise output. I need an absolut