I have an N40L configured w/ 4 x 2 TB disks and 8 GB of ECC DRAM. The disks have two partitions each. A small one for a 4 way mirrored root pool and a large one for data using double parity RAIDZ. It's a bit of extra work to configure, but works very nicely giving 100+ MB/s disk I/O. (179 MB/s 4 disk RAIDZ1, 109 MB/s RAIDZ2). An N54L should do better.
The trick is to install OI to a small partition on a single disk. Then partition the other disks, mirror the root pool, detach the first disk, repartition it and add it to the mirror. Then form the RAIDZ on the rest of the disk. Technically it's not bootable RAIDZ, but it's close enough for me. Have Fun! Reg -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2/7/14, Hans J. Albertsson <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, February 7, 2014, 10:50 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
