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On 08/18/2017 11:11 AM, Sami Halabi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am planning to use zfs appliance for backup purposes, do you have
> reccomenations for small box with 4-16 gb ram ecc, and 4 hard drives
> sas/sata.
HP Microserver Gen8 (G1610T) is quite cheap at the moment