From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 16 08:31:03 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 451441065670 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:31:03 +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 BE27A8FC19 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o1G8V02E081858; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:31:00 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:31:00 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: jfarmer@goldsword.com In-Reply-To: <20100215175022.tthc9qe3moks0so4@www.goldsword.com> Message-ID: References: <4B786D3A.3000408@langille.org> <4B7980E0.1020907@langille.org> <33955.188.157.184.107.1266267470.squirrel@mail.deployis.eu> <35489.188.157.184.107.1266269362.squirrel@mail.deployis.eu> <20100215175022.tthc9qe3moks0so4@www.goldsword.com> 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]); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:31:00 +0300 (MSK) 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: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:31:03 -0000 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, jfarmer@goldsword.com wrote: > > Just out of curiousity, would not an older server like this: > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=DL145-5R (~$75 + shipping) or > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DL360-6R&cat=SYS (~$190 + shipping) > > be a reasonable option? Unless you're looking to suck every last bit of speed > or energy savings out the machine, I would think bumping the memory up on one > of these, adding one or more eSATA or SAS interfaces and an external drive > rack would result in an exceptional "home" server with several TB of storage, > decent speed, still costing less than $1K usd.... way too noisy, even for the basement :( -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------