Wes Williams wrote:
I could use the list's help.
My goal: Build a cheap ZFS file server with OpenSolairs on UFS boot (for now)
10,000 rpm U320 SCSI drive while having a ZFS pool in the same machine. The ZFS
pool will either be a mirror or raidz setup consisting of either two or three
500Gb 7,200 rpm SATA II drives.
I've been looking at building this setup in some cheap eBay rack-mount servers
that are generally single or dual 1.0GHz Pentium III, 1Gb PC133 RAM, and I'd have
to add the SATA II controller into a spare PCI slot.
Buy the "cheap server" for $20 + $20 shipping, or don't bother.
Throw away the P-III mobo and buy a 64-bit CPU + mobo for $100 or so.
Many of these also include SATA controllers, so you won't need to
purchase a separate SATA controller. Add as much RAM as you can.
-- richard
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