From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 01:25:04 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 445DA106566B for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940188FC21 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1F1Oxmd005744 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:55:00 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Dan Langille Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:54:55 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <201002141735.18275.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4B7803B9.1040102@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <4B7803B9.1040102@langille.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart12295894.KgLGvQPujE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002151154.57022.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.639 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:25:04 -0000 --nextPart12295894.KgLGvQPujE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: > > I priced a decent ZFS PC for a small business and it was AUD$2500 > > including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc.. > > Yes, and this one doesn't yet have HDD. > > Can you supply details of your system? 1 AP400791A 4U Rackmount chassis (no PSU) 1 MB455SPF 5 drive hot swap bay (in 3x5.25") 5 HAWD7502ABYS WD 750Gb 24x7 RAID 1 GA-MA770T-UD3P Gigabyte AMD770T AM3 motherboard 1 CPAP-965 AMD PhenomII X4 AM2+/3 2 MEK-4G1333D3D4R Kingston 4Gb DDR3/1333 ECC RAM 1 PSS-PSR700 Seasonic 700W PSU 1 VCMS4350-D512H Radeon 4350 PCIe video card 1 FMCFP4G 4Gb CF card 1 n/a CF to IDE adapter Note that I haven't actually built it yet, I don't expect any problems=20 though. I built a much cheaper version (non hot swap) at home using a Gigabyte=20 GA-MA785GM-US2H, Athlon II X2 240 2.8GHz, 4Gb DDR2 RAM and 5 1Tb WD=20 drives in an Antec NineHundred case. It boots of a CF card too, but has=20 onboard video and only a 400W PSU (which is probably overkill, steady=20 state draw was ~110W) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart12295894.KgLGvQPujE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLeKJo5ZPcIHs/zowRArRGAJ4wNkugVpvLxpHSZ+Ew4b26R107igCeOMST eG/0SUcNznC5aFw6E1jqS6w= =oSfo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart12295894.KgLGvQPujE--