[zfs-discuss] ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-10 Thread clockwork
All, So I have started working with Solaris 10 at work a bit (I'm a Linux guy by trade) and I have a dying nfs box at home. So the long and short of it is as follows: I would like to setup a SATAII whitebox that uses ZFS as its filesystem. The box will probably be very lightly used, streaming m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread clockwork
So are there any pci-e SATA cards that are supported ? I was hoping to go with a sempron64. Using old-pci seems like a waste.Regards.On 10/11/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 11/10/06, Peter van Gemert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi There,>> You might want to check the HCL at http://w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread clockwork
Well thats probably because both windows and Linux were designed with the intel/x86/cheap crap market in mind. A more valid comparison would be OSX, since it is also designed to run on a somewhat specific set of hardware. Solaris will get there, but the open aspect of solaris on intel is still fair

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-12 Thread clockwork
Yeah, I looked at the tool. Unfortunately it doesnt help at all with choosing what to buy.On 10/12/06, Dick Davies < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On 11/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Dick Davies wrote:>> > On 11/10/06, Peter van Gemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> >> You might wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cheap ZFS homeserver.

2007-01-19 Thread clockwork
David, That would be nice, and reasonably cheap. I hope it works. The only issue I have with it is the lack of 3.5 spots, only having 3 such slots really limits the ability to grow the space over time. "You must have just missed the "What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?" thread.