We use the following for our storage servers: Chenbro 5U chassis (24 hot-swap drive bays) 1350 watt 4-way redundant PSU Tyan h200M motherboard (S3992) 2x dual-core AMD Opteron 2200-series CPUs 8 GB ECC DDR2-SDRAM 4-port Intel PRO/1000MT NIC (PCIe) 3Ware 9550SXU PCI-X RAID controller (12-port, multi-lane) 3Ware 9650SE PCIe RAID controller (12-port, muli-lane) 24x 500 GB harddrive (either Seagate ES2 or Western Digital RE2)
Comes out to under $10,000 CDN, and gives 10 TB of disk space (3x 8-drive raidz2). If you use multiple 8-port SATA/SAS controllers instead of RAID controller, and a 3-way PSU, it should come out to under $8,000 CDN. Fully supportted by FreeBSD, so everything should work with OpenSolaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
