I have an N40l that I built up to 16 gb ecc memory, 4 3tb red wd drives, and a 4 2.5 bay in the CD slot with an Adaptec card for the other four drives. I am using two ssd drives for is and have two bays open (2.5). It works very well with Linux. It runs OI very well too other than I have not got around to working around the outdated Adaptec driver preventing the 2.5 drives from working under ok (and booting). Total price was about 1500 for everything.
Sent from my HTC One on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network ----- Reply message ----- From: "Hans J. Albertsson" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 9:50 AM I looked at a HP N54L today: Costs nothing, but actually handles ECC memory. Albeit very slow memory, and not very much. So, would it be reasonable to set this guy up with 4 2TB SATA disks, 8GB 800MHz ECC memory and run some Illumos based version with ZFS. I was thinking of putting two 2.5" small boot disks (300GB???) using some adapter in the optical drive slot, and 4 2TB disks in a raidz to provide 6TB of storage with medium availability performance. Would this work?? Would the performance be good enough to be a home cloud server for media and/or documents? Is Nexenta or OmniOS or SMARTOS better or easier to deply than OpenIndiana for this setup? _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
