Tom et al., >> This is for the model with the 200W PS, 1GB Dimm, and 160GB HD. Both >> of which will be recycled to a friend or given to the BU BUILDS >> group. > What are you using in place of the supplied RAM and hard drive?
I was wavering over what drives to go with, but when backblaze endorsed the "Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000" a couple days before I ordered I went with four of the 2TB variety: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145475 and for reference: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ I got a mix of February and March manufactured drives (all with the same firmware). For memory I decided this system didn't need ECC as it is a home sandbox, and I have had good luck with G.Skill series before. I purchased the G.SKILL Value Series 8GB (2 x 4GB): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231424 As I ordered before the HP arrived I was wary of going with something with large heat spreaders as I knew there wouldn't be much clearance. I dd'ed FreeBSD onto a 4GB Kingston Flash drive, but as this is my first install of *BSD in about 8 years (ah the days of the OpenBSD install fitting on a couple of floppies) it has been a "re-learning" curve. This is also the first time I have tried to run BSD on a read-only drive. I am trying to completely segregate the OS from the data. I do have the 4x2TB set up as a 5.9TB RAIDZ, but am still trying to get my feet under me. -Ben _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
