Please recommend your up-to-date high-end hardware components for building a highly fault-tolerant ZFS NAS file server.
I've seen various hardware lists online (and I've summarized them at http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/reviews/storage.edit#Solutions), but they're on the cheapo side. I want to build a media server and be done with with for a few years, (until the next generation storage media (holograms? nanowires?) becomes commercially available. So please, knock yourselves out. The bills for ZFS NAS boxes that I've seen run around $1k, and I'm willing to invest up to $3k. Requirements, in decreasing order of importance: 1. Extremely fault-tolerant. I'd like to be able to lose two disks and still be OK. I also want any silent hard disk read errors that are detected by ZFS, to be reported somehow. 2. As quiet as it gets. 3. Able to easily extend storage 4. (low) If feasible, I'd like to be able to use a Blu-Ray drive with the system. I also have a few software requirements, which I think are pretty independent of the hardware: a. Secure – I want to be able to tweak and control access at every level b. Very fast network performance. The server should be able to stream 1080p while doing a number of other tasks without issues. c. Ability to serve all different types of hosts: NFS, SMB, SCP/SFTP d. Flexible. I do a number of other things/experiments, and I’d like to be able to use it for more than just serving files. Really only #1 (reliable) and #2 (quiet) matter most. I've been mulling over this server for too long and want to get it over with. Looking forward to your recommendations, Dan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
