Jonathan Loran wrote:
David Evans wrote:
For anyone looking for a cheap home ZFS server...
Dell is having a sale on their PowerEdge SC440 for $199 (regular $598) through
11/12/2008.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_sc440?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Its got Dual Core Intel® Pentium®E2180, 2.0GHz, 1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB
and you can upgrade the memory (ECC too) to 2gb for 19$ bucks.
@$199, I just ordered 2.
dce
I don't think the Pentium E2180 has the lanes to use ECC RAM. I'm also
not confident the system board for this machine would make use of ECC
memory either, which is not good from a ZFS perspective. How many SATA
plugs are there on the MB in this guy?
Jon
ECC support is a function of the chipset AFAIK. That system has an Intel
3000 chipset which is stated to have ECC support. The Dell literature
also states ECC support. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work as such.
From the manual, it appears to have 4 SATA ports. For anyone
contemplating buying one for home use, note that it has only PCIe x8,
not x16 (for graphics cards).
The SC440 is basically just a re-badged workstation. Nothing too
exciting, but $199 is not a bad deal.
-Brian
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