Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:38:42 +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: <201002141738.44170.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <201002141735.18275.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <4B779561.7000205@langille.org> <201002141735.18275.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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: > > > > 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) > > 2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping) > > 3. LSI SAS 3081E-R $235 > > 4. SATA cables $60 > > 5. Crucial 3×2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping) > > 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 > including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc.. Also, that one booted off a 4Gb CF card (non RAID/mirror though). -- 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLd6F85ZPcIHs/zowRAmbAAKChBdwNqO+PjrPA9vX+cxPoDcN4TACfexQx gWznLpbNBT3y4aQeyVDXaY0= =K8gk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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