On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: >> Not in my neck of the woods, Sun have always been most competitive. > > You find Sun to be a better deal than Supermicro? Especially, > when you're sticking a very large number of disks into it, and > can't source the diskless caddies elsewhere?
My few little cents here. I am running stuff on Supermicro and OpenSolaris, starting from snv_121 times. Supermicro is a very cheap yet also reliable stuff (which is very strange!!, ha-ha!). Saying "Sun hardware" is competitive — I would doubt quince. The cheapest available from Sun is SunFire x2270 — http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/x86/sun-fire-x2270-m2-ds-070252.pdf — I have some experience with this machine and I have to say: while it is good machine and built well, yet it is very (I mean VERY) noisy, one non-redundant power supply (what a lose!) and it very-very non-green: will eat your power like a diesel locomotive. :) Now, guts inside are quite cheap, so basically it is just a label "Sun" on top of an average asian-built hardware. Yes, they are good machines, but at the same time nothing really special. Price is quite big. Supermicro is as same beast, just 10x times (well, maybe less) cheaper and in my case I had to remove DVD drive in order to let the thing boot to install the OpenSolaris — somewhat OSOL could not detect the DVD drive and boot always hangs (at installation phase). So I installed the thing from USB stick. After that everything is OK. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
