On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 media > to my laptop and workstation would be the bulk of the work. However I do > have quite a good deal of data, roughly 400G. So what I would like to know > is what hardware solutions work best for this ? I dont need to have 2TB of > storage on day one, but I might need it sometime down the road. I would > prefer to keep the price low(400 - 600), but I dont buy house brand > motherboard, or controllers either. So who makes a native supported board, > controller (pci-e ?), gigE card and so on. I have a DVD+_RW made by samsung > which I would imagine would work. Any assistance is welcomed and > appreciated.
I'll shoot for a failsafe, cost effective system that is known to run Solaris: Motherboard: Tyan S2865ANRF - same motherboard as used in the Sun Ultra20[0]. MonarchComputer.com part# 110624 $169 CPU: 939-pin AMD 64, two choices: a) AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 512K 90nm Rev. E Venice (939) (Retail Box-w-Fan) Code: 120274 Price: $119.99 b) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual-Core 1MB Per Core 90nm (939) (Retail Box-w-Fan) Code: 120241 Price: $229.99 Upgraded heatsink: ThermalRight XP90C (copper) [1] heatsink fans: FBA09A12M 92mm Panaflo 92x92x25 [2] heatsink compound: Artic Silver (use very sparingly) Memory: DDR-400 - your choice but Kingston is always a safe bet. 2*512Mb sticks for a starter, cost effective, system. 4*512Mb for a good long term solution. Ethernet: Use the built-in interface on the motherboard SATA controller (for ZFS): 4 port Si3114 PCI card purchased from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124020 See details on this list[3]. Caveats: DDR2 memory used with the current AMD AM2 based products is too expensive to meet your budget. The system I speced is a one-shot deal - since DDR memory will become harder to find and the non-AM2 939-pin CPUs will cease to be made at the end of this year. Some are already hard to find. [0] A user on the Solaris on Intel list upgraded to the Sun Ultra 20 BIOS! [1] very heavy. Don't transport the resulting system without removing the heatsink first. [2] suffix "M" indicates one of L (low-speed), M (medium), H (hi-speed) [3] Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:29:40 -0700 From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Fwd: [zfs-discuss] solaris-supported 8-port PCI-X SATA controller Feel free to email me offlist if you have any other questions. Regards, Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Feb 2006 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
