This is my first post here, and i hope it is ok that i posted in this thread.
I have been doing a bit of reading on the solaris platforms, and seem to be inclined to try out the open solaris os or solaris 10. My only worry is that my lack of knowledge with the command line may make this difficult regarding trouble shooting. It seems fairly straighforward creating zpools etc, but maybe nexenta is better suited for me (i read about some memory limitation with nexenta?). My end goal is to use this box, to store my media files. Connect it to my airport extreme router via gigabit ether, and depending on situation access data via wifi (smb share) or ether via router (iscsi), both on a Mac. Is it possible to do iscsi over wifi, aside from speed limitations of the wireless, i wanted to format the drive in hfs format. My proposed build thus far... CPU (39.99) AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 2.2GHz 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 45W Single-Core Processor - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/...Item=N82E16819103199 MB $134.99 ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/...Item=N82E16813131013 PSU $54.99 Rosewill RP550-2 ATX12V v2.01 550W Power Supply 115/230 V CSA,UL,TUV, FCC - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/...Item=N82E16817182017 Sata power converter $1.89 Nippon Labs 4-Pin PC power to 2 x SATA Converter Cables Model POW-SATA-2 - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/...Item=N82E16812816015 Ram $84.99 G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/...Item=N82E16820231122 Video Card $19.99 ASUS EN6200LE/TC256/TD/64 GeForce 6200LE 256MB(64MB on Board) 32-bit DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/...tem=N82E16814121019R DVD Player $17.99 Sony NEC Optiarc Black 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1615/B2s - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/...Item=N82E16827101131 80gig sata drive for the OS, and 4 500gig seagate 7200.10 drives. While planning this out, it seemed that all of the parts i chose are supported by solaris, please correct me if im wrong. Do you see any issues with this setup? I'm looking to build this box as cheaply as possible, BUT as reliable as possible as well. (any other suggestions for places that may have parts cheaper? ) Thank you all for your patience, this is quite a steep learning curve! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
