Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:35:10 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <201002141735.18275.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4B779561.7000205@langille.org> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <4B779561.7000205@langille.org>
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--nextPart7237398.xUZyrWGPh4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: > After creating three different system configurations (Athena, > Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro > setup: > > =A0 =A0 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) > =A0 =A0 2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping) > =A0 =A0 3. LSI SAS 3081E-R $235 > =A0 =A0 4. SATA cables $60 > =A0 =A0 5. Crucial 3=D72G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping) > =A0 =A0 6. Xeon W3520 $310 > > Total price with shipping $1560 > > Details and links at http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/14/supermicro/ > > I'll probably start with 5 HDD in the ZFS array, 2x gmirror'd drives > for the boot, and 1 optical drive (so 8 SATA ports). That is f**king expensive for a home setup :) I priced a decent ZFS PC for a small business and it was AUD$2500=20 including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc.. =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 --nextPart7237398.xUZyrWGPh4 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) iD8DBQBLd6Cu5ZPcIHs/zowRAhueAJ9Ds9S+RaEA5/HvsM6jflY+hqD97wCfRuZ+ cWAC6TJbl7Fd9NyUqzqdvEs= =IRXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7237398.xUZyrWGPh4--
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