wow, well done peeps, that was the problem! Request to re-number that bug to
666. Totally evil, and what a waste of time that has caused. Anyway, I have
internet access from the box, which allowed me to easily install SMB which
after a bit of messing around has now allowed me to access the
Just as a follow up. I went ahead with the original hardware purchase, it was
so much cheaper than the alternatives it was hard to resist.
Anyway, OS 2008-05 installed very nicely. Although it mentions 32bit while
booting, so I need to investigate that at some point. The actual hardware
You have not described your requirements (low-power ??, low-cost ??).
But I'll contribute some pointers anyway! :)
Well for a home NAS I'm looking at noise as a big factor. Also for a 24x7 box,
power consumption, that's why the northbridge is putting me off slightly.
So far the other solutions
Same case and same idea :) I have 2 dampered drives already installed from a
previous project. Another 2 I pulled out to install into a qnap 209. Ideally
I'd return the disks and replace the qnap with this new single ZFS NAS,
although I'm quite fond of the qnap bt client, and can't use all
thanks for all the feedback. Some followup questions:
If OS will see all 4 cores, will it also make use of all 4 cores for ZFS. ie is
ZFS fully multi threaded?
Is there any point to run ZFS over just two 2 disks? without the extra sata
ports I'm thinking I may have to abandon this idea. The
oops, I mean 2 cores.
Anyway I'm having second thoughts about this board now because the northbridge
sounds like a power hog and I was planning a passive cooled system. Also I
went through the hardware compatability list and can see what was mentioned
about the lack of SATA card for PCI. So
I'm looking to buy some new hardware to build a home ZFS based NAS. I know ZFS
can be quite CPU/mem hungry and I'd appreciate some opinions on the following
combination:
Intel Essential Series D945GCLF2
Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 2GB PC2-5300U CL5 (DDR2-667) (KVR667D2N5/2G)
Firstly, does it sound
Hi All,
Thanks for the recent info on my controller problems. So now I'm taking a
different approach but had a more basic question.
I have:
2x150GB SATA ii disks
2x500GB SATA ii disks
Is it possible/recommended to have something like a pool of two raidz pools.
This will hopefully maximize
Hi All,
I'm a total newbie to solaris so apologies if the answer is obvious, but google
is not my friend today.
I'm installing opensolaris on an intel based machine with an IDE drive for
booting and 2 SATA disks that I plan to use for a ZFS based NAS. I manged to
get opensolaris installed,
