This is awesome info! On 7/21/08, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2x Kingston 1GB DDR2: £13 each is 2 gigs enough for your ZFS load? what else do you do on the box? what version of OSOL/Solaris do you run? > 6x Western Digital Caviar 1TB WD10EACS: £144.94 each These are the "green" ones that spin down and try to be low power consumption, which is neat but I don't really like WD's :) I like Seagates mainly for the warranty... > Supermicro 8 port SATA controller: £62.10 What model exactly/chipset? > I'm using RAID-Z2 with one drive for the OS, so only have 2TB usable in this > server (it's really just a testbed for us). With a small 2.5" boot drive and > a couple more 1TB drives you should be able to get 6TB usable. Sure - I'll fill it with 1GB drives and have a compact flash or some other thing for boot (I may need some help from OSOL experts on that - how large of a CF card I'd need to make a proper solaris boot environment...) _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
