Oh, also I kind of doubt that a 750W power supply will spin 16 disks up reliably. I have 10 in mine with a 600W supply, and it's borderline--10 drives work, 11 doesn't, and adding a couple extra PCI cards has pushed mine over the edge before. Most 3.5" drives want about 30W at startup; that'd be around 780W with 16 drives.
I wish delayed spinup wasn't such a pain with SATA. Scott On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Scott Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The onboard SATA ports work on the PDSME+. One of these days I'm > going to pick up a couple of Supermicro's 5-in-3 enclosures for mine: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121405 > > > Scott > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:26 AM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Good news - I got snv_98 up without a hitch. So far, so good. >> >> Onboard video works great (well, console. Haven't used X11) >> Top NIC works great (e1000g) - haven't tried the second NIC >> Did not try the onboard SATA >> Two Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X's working well >> >> Here's the specifics: >> - LIAN LI PC-V2110B Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case >> - PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI >> Certified (Dual 8800 -GTX and below) CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified >> Active PFC Power Supply >> - SUPERMICRO MBD-PDSME+-O LGA 775 Intel 3010 ATX Server Motherboard >> - 2x Kingston 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) ECC >> Unbuffered Server Memory Model KVR667D2E5/2GI >> - 2x SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card >> - 2x Seagate 160 gig for mirrored boot >> - 7x Seagate 1.5TB for data (second batch of 7 when I fill this batch) >> >> Just about all of it thanks to Newegg. I will need to pick up some >> 4-in-3 enclosures and a better CPU heatsink/fan - this is supposed to >> be quiet but it has an annoying hum. Weird. Anyway, so far so good. >> Hopefully the power supply can handle all 16 disks too... >> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There's plenty of 8 port, either full 8 or 6+2 combinations etc. >>> >>> Anyway I went with a Supermicro PDSME+ which appears to work well >>> according to the HCL, and bought two of the AOC-SAT2-MV8's and will >>> just use those. It's actually being delivered today... >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> You may need an add-on SATA card. I haven't come across any 8 port >>>> motherboards. >>>> >>>> As far as chipsets are concerned, take a look at something with the >>>> Intel X38 chipset. It's the only one of the desktop chipsets that >>>> supports ECC ram. Coincidentally, it's also the chipset used in the >>>> Sun Ultra 24 workstation >>>> (http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra24/index.xml). >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:41 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> I posted a thread here... >>>>> http://forums.opensolaris.com/thread.jspa?threadID=596 >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to finish building a system and I kind of need to pick >>>>> working NIC and onboard SATA chipsets (video is not a big deal - I can >>>>> get a silent PCIe card for that, I already know one which works great) >>>>> >>>>> I need 8 onboard SATA. I would prefer Intel CPU. At least one gigabit >>>>> port. That's about it. >>>>> >>>>> I built a list in that thread of all the options I found from the >>>>> major manufacturers that Newegg has as the pool of possible >>>>> chipsets/etc... any help is appreciated (anyone actually using any of >>>>> these) - and remember I'm trying to use Nevada out of the box, not >>>>> have to download specific drivers and tweak all this myself... >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> zfs-discuss mailing list >>>>> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
