From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 20:20:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11C51065676 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1EA8FC1B for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o1AKKbJ4008355; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:20:37 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:20:37 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Dan Langille In-Reply-To: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> Message-ID: References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:20:37 +0300 (MSK) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:20:39 -0000 On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: DL> I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a DL> concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a DL> concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost, DL> pretty much rules out a commercial case, such as a 3U case. It would be DL> nice, but it greatly inflates the budget. This pretty much restricts me to DL> a tower case. [snip] We use the following at work, but it's still pretty cheap and pretty silent: Chieftec WH-02B-B (9x5.25 bays) filled with 2 x Supermicro CSE-MT35T http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M35T-1.cfm for regular storage, 2 x raidz1 1 x Promise SuperSwap 1600 http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?product_id=169 for changeable external backups and still have 2 5.25 bays for anything interesting ;-) other parts are regular SocketAM2+ motherboard, Athlon X4, 8G ram, FreeBSD/amd64 -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------