On 6/15/07, Will Murnane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting in this regard is the yy-0221:
http://www.directron.com/yy0221bk.html with 10 3.5 bays (well-cooled,
too - fans mounted in front of 8 of them) and 6 5.25 bays. This
doesn't leave much room for a power supply, unfortunately - the
On June 16, 2007 7:37:31 PM -0400 Will Murnane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I wish someone would make a card with a pci-express to pci-x bridge
chip and two of those controllers on it. Hmm, I just realized I'm
describing the highpoint 2340:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr2340.htm
eh, sorry
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Will Murnane wrote:
On 6/15/07, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alec Muffett wrote:
2) I've considered pivot-root solutions based around a USB stick or
drive; cute, but I want a single tower box and no dongles
You could buy a laptop disk, or mount one of these on
Ian Collins wrote:
Rob Windsor wrote:
What 8-port-SATA motherboard models are Solaris-friendly? I've hunted
and hunted and have finally resigned myself to getting a generic
motherboard with PCIe-x16 and dropping in an Areca PCIe-x8 RAID card
(in JBOD config, of course).
I don't know about 8
Rob Windsor wrote:
Ian Collins wrote:
Rob Windsor wrote:
What 8-port-SATA motherboard models are Solaris-friendly? I've hunted
and hunted and have finally resigned myself to getting a generic
motherboard with PCIe-x16 and dropping in an Areca PCIe-x8 RAID card
(in JBOD config, of course).
On 6/16/07, Rob Windsor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good lord!
That's a $400 mobo and CPUs are $400/ea (give or take a few bucks,
depending on where you shop).
My solution was cheaper and more upgrade-friendly. :)
Remind me again, how much do Areca cards cost? Then again, the FX
platform is
Will Murnane wrote:
On 6/16/07, Rob Windsor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good lord!
That's a $400 mobo and CPUs are $400/ea (give or take a few bucks,
depending on where you shop).
My solution was cheaper and more upgrade-friendly. :)
Remind me again, how much do Areca cards cost?
$60 for
On 6/16/07, Rob Windsor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
$60 for mobo, $60 for cpu, $150 for memory, $530 for 8-port Areca card. :)
Yeah, I knew how much they cost ;) Google still seems to be up. I
was merely pointing out that spending $500 on the mobo and getting a
$100 card or spending $100 on the
Alec Muffett wrote:
As I understand matters, from my notes to design the perfect home
NAS server :-)
1) you want to give ZFS entire spindles if at all possible; that will
mean it can enable and utilise the drive's hardware write cache
properly, leading to a performance boost. You want to do
Ian Collins wrote:
Alec Muffett wrote:
As I understand matters, from my notes to design the perfect home
NAS server :-)
1) you want to give ZFS entire spindles if at all possible; that will
mean it can enable and utilise the drive's hardware write cache
properly, leading to a performance
comments from the peanut gallery...
Rob Windsor wrote:
Ian Collins wrote:
Alec Muffett wrote:
As I understand matters, from my notes to design the perfect home
NAS server :-)
1) you want to give ZFS entire spindles if at all possible; that will
mean it can enable and utilise the drive's
On 6/15/07, Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alec Muffett wrote:
2) I've considered pivot-root solutions based around a USB stick or
drive; cute, but I want a single tower box and no dongles
You could buy a laptop disk, or mount one of these on the motherboard:
Rob Windsor wrote:
What 8-port-SATA motherboard models are Solaris-friendly? I've hunted
and hunted and have finally resigned myself to getting a generic
motherboard with PCIe-x16 and dropping in an Areca PCIe-x8 RAID card
(in JBOD config, of course).
I don't know about 8 port SATA, but I
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