> > I will only comment on the chassis, as this is made by AIC (short for > American Industrial Computer), and I have three of these in service at > my work. These chassis are quite well made, but I have experienced > the following two problems: > > <snip> Oh my, thanks for the heads-up! Charlie at RMP said that they were most popular - so I assumed that they were solid...
> For all new systems, I've gone with this chassis instead (I just > noticed Rackmount Pro sells 'em also): > > http://rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2043 But I was hoping for resiliency and easy replacement for the OS drive - hot-swap RAID1 seemed like a no-brainer... This case has 1 internal and one external 3.5" drive bays. I could use a CF reader for resiliency and reduce need for replacement - assuming I spool logs to internal drive so as to not burn out the CF. Alternatively, I could put a couple 2.5" drives into a single 3.5" bay for RAID1 resiliency, but I'd have to shutdown to replace a drive... What do you recommend? > One other thing, that you may know already. Rackmount Pro will try to > sell you 3ware cards, which work great in the Linux/Windows > environment, but aren't supported in Open Solaris, even in JBOD mode. > You will need alternate SATA host adapters for this application. Indeed, but why pay for a RAID controller when you only need SATA ports? - thats why I was thinking of picking up three of these bad boys (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AoC-SAT2-MV8.cfm) for about $100 each > Good luck, Getting there - can anybody clue me into how much CPU/Mem ZFS needs? I have an old 1.2Ghz with 1Gb of mem laying around - would it be sufficient? Thanks! Kent _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
