Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Russ Price rjp_...@fubegra.net writes: I'm running an ASUS M4A785-M with an Intel SASUC8I HBA, and it's been flawless with OpenSolaris b134, OI 147, and OI 148. I was a bit cheap with the RAM, with 4x1GB sticks of ECC RAM, but it has performed well for me. I'm using all six onboard SATA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread McBofh
On 23/02/11 03:40 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Russ Pricerjp_...@fubegra.net writes: I'm running an ASUS M4A785-M with an Intel SASUC8I HBA, and it's been flawless with OpenSolaris b134, OI 147, and OI 148. I was a bit cheap with the RAM, with 4x1GB sticks of ECC RAM, but it has performed well for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-22 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 22, 2011, Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry to be dense here but what is an HBA Host bus adapter is just a fancy name for a multi-port and/or channel hard drive, fibre channel, or Ethernet storage card. A better and more thorough description may be found on wikipedia. It reminds me of when Sun

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-21 Thread WK
Yes, I noticed a lot of Asus boards support ECC, and I have started using Asus boards. No remote management capability on them, but for my application, I don't need it. Another thread on this liast reported some problems with Asus boards and SAS/SATA HBAs. In a week or so I will receive a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-21 Thread Frank Middleton
On 02/21/11 08:19, WK wrote: Yes, I noticed a lot of Asus boards support ECC, and I have started using Asus boards. No remote management capability on them, but for my application, I don't need it. Coincidentally I just built 2 machines, one using an ASUS M4A78T-E, the other with a Supermicro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-21 Thread Russ Price
On 02/21/2011 04:32 PM, Frank Middleton wrote: With the addition of an 1068E based 8 port (SASUC8I) controller, the H8SGL box has 14 direct SAS/SATA ports and is the basis for a pretty decent ZFS server, development machine and VBox manager with room for 10 3.5 drives, 8 hot swap, in a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Johannes Bohse
Hello Harry, Am 20.02.2011 05:40, schrieb Harry Putnam: , | [Aside: the following drives could as well be 2 TB WD green (as the | 1tb WD black shown below) for an extra $33 per,(total $66), but I was | not sure if at some point the shear size begins to be a problem by | itself for things

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Johannes Bohse openindiana-a...@ko-sys.com writes: you do not need to worry about the size. zfs is very efficient in scrubbing and resilvering. zfs scrubs used sectors only and resilvers only missing transactions. Spare sectors are not involved in both complexity equations. Good info thank

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread WK
Does the Gigabyte board handle ECC memory? After my backups started failing verification, I realized how easily a stick of bad ram can corrupt files, and I made sure my motherboards support ECC memory. It's not too expensive, but I wish it was more widely used so the price would drop further.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Okky Hendriansyah
level boards and AMD CPU (not Opteron) only support Unbuffered ones, not the Registered ones. CMIIW. Okky Hendriansyah --Original Message-- From: WK To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org ReplyTo: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-20 Thread Gary Driggs
I've found memoryx.com has some of the best prices and often most obscure RAM available. They'll even build their own if necessary and their support is top notch. -Gary ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

2011-02-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Being much a novice in building for a zfs server, I've cobbled up a setup with one of those build it online setups... on ebay this one was. But before I plunge for the green backs. I'd really feel a bit more confident if a few experienced people ran there eye down the lineup and see if anything