[OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
I've been trying to find what powerloss protected SSDs are available in sweden. The only ones I can find that are generally available are Samsung 843 and Intel S3500. The Intel S3500 costs about 1300 SEK (145 €??) each at 120GB. The Seagates are NOT available anywhere that I can see. Samsung

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Compiling OpenOffice4

2014-02-10 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Has this moved forward yet? On 2014-02-06 18:51, carl brunning wrote: If no one else will hosts it then yes I will put it on my website and give a link to it for other till a better place for it happens Thank Carl -Original Message- From: Apostolos Syropoulos

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Smart Array driver

2014-02-10 Thread Stefan Müller-Wilken
Looking at https://www.illumos.org/issues/3881 and http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182190/2013/09/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/3:14/ I get the impression, the cpqary3 driver should be already available. Could anyone help getting hold of the binaries? Cheers Stefan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.alberts...@branneriet.se wrote: Samsung 843 The 843 while called and enterprise SSD, does not have capacitors for power loss protection. http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/samsung-843/2/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
Why not Intel 320 series? Also 710 series work fine for this, for a bit more $$ and a bit more speed. The 320 are not as fast as the S3700 or S3500 but they are a LOT less expensive. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Schweiss, Chip c...@innovates.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:22 AM,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-02-10 22:50, Doug Hughes wrote: Why not Intel 320 series? Also 710 series work fine for this, for a bit more $$ and a bit more speed. The 320 are not as fast as the S3700 or S3500 but they are a LOT less expensive. Also, read at least the official specs - the S3500 seems a lot less

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Why not Intel 320 series? Also 710 series work fine for this, for a bit more $$ and a bit more speed. The 320 are not as fast as the S3700 or S3500 but they are a LOT less expensive. This thread started out as a discussion of the merits of the HP N54L microserver for home use. I am not really

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Brogyányi József
2014.02.09. 22:19 keltezéssel, Jim Klimov írta: 2*120Gb Samsung Pro SSDs (with powerloss protection, formatted to use 100Gb for mirrored rpool/mirrored zil/striped l2arc since their 100Gb sub-model has much higher reliability and speed - but is not on sale here). Jim Only one question about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Schweiss, Chip
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: This thread started out as a discussion of the merits of the HP N54L microserver for home use. I am not really sure if a home server needs mirrored battery-protected SSDs. :-) I tend to agree with this. My approach is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
true, Volker.. Just to note though, the 320s have no battery, but they do have enough capacitor to flush anything from the small ram into flash on power outage. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: Why not Intel 320 series? Also 710 series work fine for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
smartctl -x reports the wear on decent ones (read: you shouldn't consider any that doesn't have this feature). When it gets close to 0, or you see a lot of errors, it's time to replace it. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Brogyányi József bro...@gmail.com wrote: 2014.02.09. 22:19 keltezéssel,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Ben Taylor
Surprised someone hasn't developed a SATA power cable with small battery Passthrough for this exact application. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Doug Hughes d...@will.to wrote: true, Volker.. Just to note though, the 320s have no battery, but they do have enough capacitor to flush anything

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Doug Hughes
capacitors are better. Batteries wear out and are difficult to have the correct monitoring for replacement. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Ben Taylor bentaylor.sol...@gmail.comwrote: Surprised someone hasn't developed a SATA power cable with small battery Passthrough for this exact

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Ben Taylor
While I agree that monitoring is good, and batteries wear out, and this is a problem in production environments. For a hobbyist, where I can take down my system without permission from my boss or business unit, it is really that bad of an idea? On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Doug Hughes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Wouldn't a UPS with monitoring be a better alternative? Allow the server to power down safely on UPS when it detects a power lost state. Most UPSes I know have either serial or USB monitoring, sometimes even Ethernet on higher-end models (although I've never looked at the monitoring systems in

[OpenIndiana-discuss] iostat - sum of the parts

2014-02-10 Thread jason matthews
I have asked this question before but I am going to try to rephrase it. when i look at the output from iostat -nMxCz 1 i see something that looks like following on my shinny new servers running 151a9. I was previously rev-locked on 151a1. my question is why do the numbers for the zpool not

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] iostat - sum of the parts

2014-02-10 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 10 February 2014 18:02, jason matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: my question is why do the numbers for the zpool not resemble the sum of the parts? for example busy reports 56% for the pool but no device in the pool is more than 40% busy, in this example. In both cases, the % busy column

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
Is that really true: The press reslease from Samsung in the US said explicitly: The integrated Power loss function includes tantalum capacitors, thus ensuring the data is written while power failure. On 2014-02-10 22:32, Schweiss, Chip wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Hans J.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
The SSD I'm looking at is a Samsung 843T, note the T. Maybe there's a non - T variety w/o the powerloss protection?? On 2014-02-11 08:28, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: Is that really true: The press reslease from Samsung in the US said explicitly: The integrated Power loss function includes

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Powerloss protected SSDs for ...Re: Low low end server

2014-02-10 Thread Hans J. Albertsson
That was it. The 843 has no powerloss protection short-term backup power supply, the 843T does have tantalum powerloss backup caps. On 2014-02-11 08:42, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: The SSD I'm looking at is a Samsung 843T, note the T. Maybe there's a non - T variety w/o the powerloss