> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Kyle McDonald > > I'm currently considering purchasing 1 or 2 Dell R515's. > > With up to 14 drives, and up to 64GB of RAM, it seems like it's well > suited > for a low-end ZFS server. > > I know this box is new, but I wonder if anyone out there has any > experience with it? > > How about the H700 SAS controller? > > Anyone know where to find the Dell 3.5" sleds that take 2.5" drives? I > want to put some SSD's in a box like this, but there's no way I'm > going to pay Dell's SSD prices. $1300 for a 50GB 'mainstream' SSD? Are > they kidding?
You are asking for a world of hurt. You may luck out, and it may work great, thus saving you money. Take my example for example ... I took the "safe" approach (as far as any non-sun hardware is concerned.) I bought an officially supported dell server, with all dell blessed and solaris supported components, with support contracts on both the hardware and software, fully patched and updated on all fronts, and I am getting system failures approx once per week. I have support tickets open with both dell and oracle right now ... Have no idea how it's all going to turn out. But if you have a problem like mine, using unsupported hardware, you have no alternative. You're up a tree full of bees, naked, with a hunter on the ground trying to shoot you. And IMHO, I think the probability of having a problem like mine is higher when you use the unsupported hardware. But of course there's no definable way to quantize that belief. My advice to you is: buy the supported hardware, and the support contracts for both the hardware and software. But of course, that's all just a calculated risk, and I doubt you're going to take my advice. ;-) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
