[OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

[Gregory Youngblood]

I have an N40l that I built up to 16 gb ecc memory, 4 3tb red wd drives, and a 4 2.5 bay in the CD slot with an Adaptec card for the other four drives. I am using two ssd drives for is and have two bays open (2.5). It works very well with Linux. It runs OI very well too other than I have not got around to working around the outdated Adaptec driver preventing the 2.5 drives from working under ok (and booting). Total price was about 1500 for everything.

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From: "Hans J. Albertsson" <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se>
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server
Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 9:50 AM

I looked at a HP N54L today: Costs nothing, but actually handles ECC 
memory. Albeit very slow memory, and not very much.

So, would it be reasonable to set this guy up with 4 2TB SATA disks, 8GB 
800MHz ECC memory and run some Illumos based version with ZFS.

I was thinking of putting two 2.5" small boot disks (300GB???) using 
some adapter in the optical drive slot, and 4 2TB disks in a raidz to 
provide 6TB of storage with medium availability performance.

Would this work?? Would the performance be good enough to be a home 
cloud server for media and/or documents?

Is Nexenta or OmniOS or SMARTOS better or easier to deply than 
OpenIndiana for this setup?








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