[OpenIndiana-discuss] New NAS hardware suggestions

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Allan

Depending what you want, we have good support for NVME AMD/Intel 
Hardware. From the N150 with 4 NVME to a self built server there is much 
to recomend.

If you can get an old Workstation from eBay there is a good chance for 
it to work, but you should first look at the room setup and noise you 
want. If you want more than 4 Disks, try a large case where you can put 
an HBA from the HCL in and use a JBOD for the disks.

We have quite a few SAS Controllers from LSI supported. With 16TB or 20 
TB disks you can easily get more than 100TB usable storage.

ZFS Calculator also has a HDD price calculator for you to play around with.

If you have some idea which paths xou can go we can make more concrete 
suggestions.

https://illumos.org/hcl/

https://wintelguy.com/zfs-calc.pl

Hope this helps
Till


On 9/12/25 16:34, david allan finch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have any low cost recommendation of hardware to make a new 
> NAS/File Server with that I can install the current openindiana on?
> 
> It would be my preference to install more that three disks in it long, 
> more like eight or more (happy to put in extension cards)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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