Hello I recently purchased some hardware which I plan on turning into a data server.
I purchased the following: 4 gigs of registered ECC ram 667 SuperMicro X7DCA motherboard (found it for really cheap and figured it couldn't be too bad) http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5100/X7DCA-3.cfm An Intel Xeon 2.5 Ghz Quadcore E5420 4 WD 750 gig desktop hard drives Does this setup seem ok for using opensolaris and particularly ZFS? I am aware of the Time Limited Recover on WD drives when you choose desktop models instead of the Raid editions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery I plan on changing the desktop models to include this fact thus turning them into the Raid editions. So based off the motherboard and hard drives would this configuration work for ZFS? If so how should I go about setting up ZFS? For instance in Raid configuration I would set all the hard drives to master and hook them up to my Raid controller. Do I set all the hard drives to master here for ZFS? Also do you recommend getting a smaller hard drive to store the OS and merely use the ZFS drives as my data backup? Thank you for your time -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
