On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <sh...@nedharvey.com>wrote:
> > 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. ;-) > > Dell requires Dell branded drives as of roughly 8 months ago. I don't think there was ever an H700 firmware released that didn't require this. I'd bet you're going to waste a lot of money to get a drive the system refuses to recognize. --Tim
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