i've received a few off-list responses in addition to the one below, and i appreciate them all! i've dismissed these in the past for multiple reasons, and after seeing usb3 supported wanted to reconsider. unfortunately, it looks like the newer ones are still unusable for a different reason.
i'd really like something lab-worthy that can run head node and provision to itself, and potentially capable of production-ish use at my home office. i already have that, but the hardware is older and quite power-hungry, so i'm looking at the newer green-ish alternatives. any other suggestions? i've looked hard at the supermicro 5028D-TN4T (looks like freenas-mini) which sports the normal good stuff (ipmi and plenty of ecc ram) but it's not cheap. i've also looked at their tiny boxes (eg. SYS-E200-8D), thinking i could potentially leverage iscsi for zone/kvm secondary data volumes (not boot volumes) but haven't really researched whether that is an option. i know smartos doesn't support network storage, but this would be the zone/kvm os using a network protocol - if samba works (it does) i figure iscsi at least has a chance. thoughts? ----- On Aug 1, 2017, at 4:16 PM, Jan Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > The one I picked allows for one M2 and one more 2.5" drive AFAIK. > -Jan > Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 1, 2017, at 21:50, [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > wrote: >> thanks for that! >> do all the NUCs max out at 16GB memory? >> do any allow dual drives? >> ----- On Aug 1, 2017, at 3:20 PM, Brian Bennett < [ >> mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > wrote: >>> You can refer to my NUC BoM list. >>> [ http://a.co/76v1D0W | http://a.co/76v1D0W ] >>> It includes notes about which parts are compatible with which NUCs. >>> -- >>> Brian Bennett >>> Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations >>> Joyent, Inc. | [ http://www.joyent.com/ | www.joyent.com ] >>>> On Aug 1, 2017, at 1:58 AM, Jan Paul < [ mailto:[email protected] | >>>> [email protected] ] > wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I’m getting together a home SmartOS box in form of intel NUC (NUC 5I7RYH) >>>> but >>>> I'm still debating the drive, is the M2 SATA/PCIe drive supported or do I >>>> need >>>> to use the 2.5 inch SATA drive for zones pool? >>>> Did someone try this one from crucial? [ >>>> http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/storage-ssd-mx300 | >>>> http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/storage-ssd-mx300 ] (P/N: CT275MX300SSD4) >>>> Thx, for any pointers, cheers >>>> -Jan >>>> P.S. I went through the works for me wiki section but I couldn’t find out >>>> if >>>> someone is using the M2 drives :( >>>> [ http://www.listbox.com/ | http://www.listbox.com ] > smartos-discuss | [ https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now | > Archives ] [ > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25093932-a130f657 ] | [ > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > | Modify ] Your Subscription [ http://www.listbox.com/ | > ] ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
