So I have just finished building something similar to this... I'm finally replacing my Pentium II 400Mhz fileserver!
My setup is: Opensolaris 2008.11 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138117 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103255 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129025 (there is no power supply here I had one of those too) I ended up paying $278 The case and everything makes it super quiet, and it runs very cool. Still have a power test to run and see but I'm guessing 125 - 150 watts. I had hard drives available, and using a USB DVD/CD drive for installation I am using 2 ATA drives mirrored for the root pool I am using 6 500GB (hitachi) sata drives in raidz for data with the onboard interface. The initial iozone test I ran, under ideal block sizes etc, I could sustain enough to saturate the 1GB interface. Real world, I haven't been able to see what my real utilization is. I use this mostly to store media (movies, mp3s, etc) which I play with a mythtv box (just using NFS as the share). Also planning to use this as a backup server for the other machines in the house (considering running Amanda at home for this) I'm usually not doing heavy file I/O, so I've also put a virtual machine on here with virtual box for casual use for other stuff. During the process I swapped the whole thing to ubuntu on a usb flash and ran the opensolaris fileserver as a VM with VMWare...but I ended up just not happy with that in the end. The usb flash I had was OK, but it's not a hard drive. With opensolaris, I can still play flash stuff from Hulu fullscreen in HD with the onboard video. I've been trying to remember why I still need windows for a desktop and have been debating just killing that PC as well. Most of the things that I used windows for (ripping a DVD, etc) can be done with a VM with virtualbox...it's slow, but it works. I also don't re-encode video at all. I don't know if mythtv will actually run on opensolaris...that would be cool if it did. As far as a fileserver that has capacity to do other stuff, I'm very happy with this setup. As for the person who suggested a Sun x4150. Those are extremely loud because of the fans. There is no way I could run one of those at my house because of that. It was designed for a datacenter (and I have run them there). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
