On 09/25/10 02:54 AM, Erik Trimble wrote:
Honestly, I've said it before, and I'll say it (yet) again: unless you have very stringent power requirement (or some other unusual requirement, like very, very low noise), used (or even new-in-box, previous generation excess inventory) OEM stuff is far superior to any build-it-yourself rig you can come up with. So much so, in fact, that we should really consider the reference recommendation for a ZFS fileserver to be certain configs of brand-name hardware, and NOT try to recommend other things to folks.
Unless you live somewhere with a very small used server market that is! -- Ian. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
