Yea I have a cheap nvidia video card I found that should work with this. I found this MB at Fry's for under 100 dollars so I figured Id try it out. Its probably a discontinued line of server motherboards by SuperMicro so I figured it probably would be an OK board.
1.) Why would I put the boot volumes into a mirrored configuration? I figure if the OS blows up Ill just format it and load it on again. Is it really worth it to have the OS mirrored? 2.) What is the benefit of hooking the SATA hard drives up to the SAS port? Is it not wise to put the OS hard drives and the data hard drives in the same port? 3.) Ill try to figure that out, shouldn't be too hard as presumably its in the BIOS 4.) Ha thats pretty hillarious that it has trouble operating in the RAM configuration I picked. Who would have thought? I guess Ill pick up two 1 Gig sticks to make it 6 Gigs, as I dont really want to spend another 100 dollars on Ram. 5.) Maybe in a few years 6.) Overkill indeed however who doesn't like power? "You haven't said what you plan to use the server for, which will drive how you want to configure the drives (i.e. RAIDZ or mirror/striped)" This is going to be used for my parents business (Im merely setting it up for them and then leaving it.) So basically what I want is reliability and redundancy. I want there to be very little chance of data loss as the business they are in requires them to keep all documents. Currently they have them all on a precarious external hard drive so I want this thing to basically be equivalent to Raid 6. I also want to be able to leave it and have it perform without touching it for decent periods of time. Usually I would use Linux as its great for that but I decided to try out ZFS. Now I read that its advisable to scrub the system every week or month, is it possible just to make a script that will do this so I dont have to be there? Also I know ZFS can use blank hard drives that will activate when a disk fails, is this feature well made in ZFS? Meaning is it trustworthy? I guess I'm just used to trusting several hundred dollar Raid cards, seems odd to be back to software. Thank you for your help -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
