Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS tolerance

I’ve done lots of small pools of random drives-including ones with drives in USB2 cases-over the years and I’ve never had ZFS complain. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Rich Teer wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Jonathan Adams wrote: > > > You might be better off with a FreeNAS setup instead of Linux+ZFS, as > long > > as you don't mind configuring it via a browser interface ... We have 3 of > > the beasties now

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

[Once more without the typos and formatting that I thought that I had deleted.] This is a good list of cards for use with ZFS. It's kept up to date by the author (It was last updated on 12/04/2014.), states compatibility with different OSs, and has lots of comments: From 32 to 2 ports: Ideal

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

Also nice: The author discusses issues with bottlenecks (if any) for each card/chipset. Phil ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cram more drives into an HP xw8600

My apologies for taking so long to respond. I started a first draft of this and then forget to finish it before going on vacation. Phil On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Philip Robar philip.ro...@gmail.com writes: First, thank you sir for your repeated

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cram more drives into an HP xw8600

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Nikola M. minik...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/23/14 08:34 PM, Philip Robar wrote: If you don't mind a mini rack sitting outside of your case this is an inexpensive ($30) option: http://www.sansdigital.com/storage-gadgets/hddrack5.html Huh, I think

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cram more drives into an HP xw8600

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Can anyone tell me if it is better to have a cage with backplane. If backplane is just some raid rigamorole... probably useless for this But would a general sata backplane be any advantage? For personal use it's mostly

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cram more drives into an HP xw8600

One option might be an x in y drive bay that slides into the top forward facing builtin drive bay. (Where x y.) These are available in both hot and non-hot swapping versions. They use fan(s) forcing air over the drives to keep the temps down. Search on drive bays or drive cage to get an idea of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cram more drives into an HP xw8600

The tray less cages that Bill and I mentioned can be a little pricy ($100 +/-) so be aware that there are less expensive x in y options, both tray and tray less, that don't have backplanes* that the drives plug into, i.e. they are just bays that house the drives closer together and include a fan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any hardware snafus in this lineup?

I forgot one thing. The Avoton boards have not been tested with Solaris, OpenIndiana or any of its derivates. Lots of people are asking about them for this use, but no results yet that I know of yet. Phil ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone??? Re: Can OI run on these MBs?

These are fairly new boards, after searching via Google it seems to be the case that no one has tried Solaris/OpenIndiana/illumos/... on them yet. Lots of people talking about it, but no one seems to have actually tried it yet. Here's a chance for you to be a pioneer. Buy one from a place with a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone??? Re: Can OI run on these MBs?

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, ken mays maybird1...@yahoo.com wrote: Hans, More compatible is the Intel S1200KP motherboard. Interesting, but it's of stock at newegg--as in it appears to be discontinued. And it's socket 1155, not 1150 so it doesn't use the lower power Haswell CPUs. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any hardware snafus in this lineup?

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: These hardware specs are for a planned home lan zfs NAS CONFIGURATION CPU : AMD 64 CPU AM3/AM3+ AMD FX-8350 Piledriver (Vishera) 4.0GHz (Eight Core) 32nm, AM3+ 8MB Cache Cooling Fans :

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L questions for those who've already tried it

I've seen discussions on modifying the BIOS to enabling hot-swapping and up SATA levels of the HP Proliant Microserver N54L in other forums-- FreeNAS if I recall correctly--when I was looking into HP Microservers a couple of days ago. A little searching should quickly turn up those thread. I got