Sorry, forgot the list: Well, this depends a lot of what you're going to use it for...
If you're concerned about performance, or if you're concerned about how much space you need, or both or neither... I would buy a second hand HP DL380 G6 for performance needs, or a DL180 G6 for space needs. If you would want both perfermance and space, I'd buy a DL380 G6 and an expansion jbod, perhaps HP MSA60 if you like HP gear. In this way you will get much more for your buck. Rgrds Johan -----"OmniOS-discuss" <[email protected]> skrev: ----- Till: [email protected] Från: "C. L. Martinez" Sänt av: "OmniOS-discuss" Datum: 2013-12-20 08:56 Ärende: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OT: Similar hardware like MIcroserver Gen8 On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, C. L. Martinez <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks jimklimov, but my idea is not to use a microserver box due to > problems with SATA disks in AHCI mode under Gen8 series ... And Gen7 > is too slowly machines ... > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:24 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've recently coordinated a maxed-out build of Gen7 N54L Microserver (my >> brother bought and assembled the parts) with 2*8gb ecc ram. Its main >> advantage is the ODD bay where you can mount 2.5" cradles for up to 6 small >> disks - laptop sized hdds or ssds, so that your big 3.5" disks are used only >> for the data pool. We went with raidz1 to maximize space (4*4tb hdds), but >> if you are not too constrained in this regard, raid10 should be better for >> reliability, efficiency and performance. >> >> Also, our build ultimately connected all disk bays to an 8-port (2*4-port >> fanout cables) LSI card. Make sure to use half-height short cards, our first >> bet did not fit ;) >> >> Performance is not quite stellar due to the cpu, but decent. The SSDs (iirc >> mirrored Seagate 600 Pro with powerloss protection, at 120gb formatted to >> only use 100gb, for rpool and l2arc for metadata, zil is configured but >> stays empty) do rock :) >> >> So while we looked at hacking another bios as many users do to gain better >> control of the mobo sata ports, we had no reason to risk this so far - these >> ports are not currently used at all. >> >> Typos courtesy of my Samsung Mobile >> >> >> -------- Исходное >> сообщение -------- >> От: "C. L. Martinez" <[email protected]> >> Дата: 2013.12.18 22:05 (GMT+04:00) >> Кому: [email protected] >> Тема: [OmniOS-discuss] OT: Similar hardware like >> MIcroserver Gen8 >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> It is time to migrate my home NAS server (an old Pentium host) to a >> new brand server. I am thinking to use a similar server like >> Microserver Gen8. Searching in this mailing lists I see some threads >> about problems with this type of server. >> >> Any hardware recommendation?? I prefer to use HP or Lenovo boxes than >> to buy every component, but I accept all type of suggestions. >> Please any more inputs?? _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
