I just bought one. :-) My imprssions:
- Installed Nexentastor community edition in it. All hardware was recognized and works. No problem there. I am however rather underwhelmed by the Nexentastor system and will problably just install Opensolaris on it (b134) this evening. I want to use the box as a NAS, serving CIFS to clients (a mixture of MAC and Linux machines) but as I don't have that much administration to do in it I'll just do it on the command line and forgo fancy broken guis... - The system is wel build. Quality is good. I could get the whole motherboard tray out without needing to use tools. It comes with 1GB of ram that I plan to upgrade. - The system does come with four HD trays and all the screws you need. I plunked in 4 2T disks, and a small SSD for the OS. - The motherboard has a minisas connector, which is connected to the backplane, and a seperate SATA connector that is intended for an optical drive. I used that to connect a SSD which lives in the optical drive bay. There is also an internal USB connector you could just put a USB stick in. - Performance under nexentastor appears OK. I have to do some real tests though. - It is very quiet. Can certainly live with it in my office. (But will move it in to the basement anyway. . A nice touch is the eSata connector on the back. It does have a VGA connector, but no keyboard/mouse. This is completely legacy free... All in all this is an excellent platform to build a NAS on. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
