[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

[david allan finch]

Hi All,

Might be interesting to someone out there ;)

I still have this little box, use it as a file server and still using 
oi_151a9.

I have progressively been replacing the HDD with bigger and bigger 
drives and all still works well. I keep think of replacing the hardware 
but never yet really got around to it. I think since the original 2Tb 
HHDs I have increase it to 6Tb, 10Tb, then 14Tb in stages.

I just replace my 3 disk raid5 pool, which used to have 3x14Tb with some 
new 3x20Tb Tosh disks.

Last time it took 10hr each to re-silver the replaced disks from 10Tb to 
14Tb, this time it took 33hr for each disk (ie 100hr to do all three 
over 5 days).

I have tried to update the OS before and always it fails at some point, 
so in the end just stayed with what worked.

On 2/12/15 10:36, david allan finch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what to do for an upgrade?
>
> I have a HP Proliant Microserver N54L with 4x 2Tb drives which I have 
> been happy with for more than a year but I have started to run out of 
> disk space in my zfs pool. I have been pruning the snapshots and 
> rubbish but filling it up now is inevitable.
>
> What I would really like to do is to swap the disks out for larger one 
> but I doubt that this is really practical as to make this work you 
> need spare disk slots which I don't have.
>
> Another option might be to add a SATA card and add more disk that way. 
> But I have no idea of where to start with this, and even if this 
> microserver can do that.
>
> And a third is just to get a new server. I can't see any which have 
> more than 4 drive bays do these exist (for reasonable money) or do you 
> need to make your own? If so anyone got a recommendation?