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Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 18, 2007 6:27 PM
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So after toying around with some stuff a few months back I got bogged down and set this project aside for a while. Time to revisit.
Looking around there still is not a good "these cards/motherboards" work list. the HCL is hardly ever updated, and its far more geared towards business use than hobbyist/home use. So bearing all of that in mind I will need the following things:
1. At least 2 gigE nics.
2. At least 6 SATAII ports (and at least 6 drive slots)
3. Reasonable price (probably going to build it myself.)
I'm not worried about hotswapping. I want to make sure the box is going to be upgradeable with decent priced parts for a while (so PCI is out). My current fileserver is 6 years old. Out of space (or close enough) and starting to become a little less stable than I would like. So without getting into all of the gory details, the things I am stuck on are the following:
1. What consumer level motherboards (not a $400 server board, I dont need that) and/or chipsets does opensolaris support at this point ? I dont want "if you compile this 3 week old version with these four changes it might work". I want "this works". I use solaris at work on all sorts of Sun hardware, but of course I cant afford Sun hardware for my house.
2. What consumer level SATAII chipsets work. 4-ports onboard is fine for now since I can always add a card later. I will need at least four ports to start. pci-e cards are highly preferred since pci-x is expensive and going to become rarer. (mark my words)
So I was hoping that this board would work:
HERE
I'm open to suggestions. I'd prefer to use solaris and zfs, but if it cannot be easily done I will stick with Linux.
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 18, 2007 6:43 PM
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On January 18, 2007 6:27:14 PM -0800 "." <clockwork at sigsys dot org> wrote:
> Looking around there still is not a good "these cards/motherboards" work
> list.
You must have just missed the "What SATA controllers are people using
for ZFS?" thread. Not a list, but you can probably find similar components
to what was recommended. I would be hestitant myself to use any other
SATA card than what was recommended, however motherboard choice is probably
fairly wide open.
-frank
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 18, 2007 7:05 PM
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Couldn't this be considered a compatibility list that we can trust for
OpenSolaris and ZFS?
http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/
I've been looking at it for the past few days. I am looking for eSATA
support options - more details below.
Only 2 devices on the list show support for eSATA, both are PCI-X. One
uses Infiniband, one uses an eSATA multiplier cable. I wish PCI
Express would get in there. That would open up my options more... I
really don't want to be limited only to internal SATA; I want to use
these 5 drive eSATA-driven enclosures, like one of the below:
http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=8&modelno=ds-500
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1586
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1325
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1578 (a 10
drive one [2 eSATA ports used])
This would effectively, if I understand it right, allow for 20 drives
per controller card (4 ports x 5 drives apiece)
However, I don't think OpenSolaris/Solaris support these unless the
Addonics eSATA PCI-X adapter supports them. I have not figured that
one out yet. All I know is I want ZFS.
This would be for home usage, I want something as small and quiet as
possible. Otherwise I would look into getting 3u type drive shelves
(which would be noisy, etc.)
I have a couple other friends as well all interested in this same
idea. Just waiting around for confirmation that these combinations
work, or for the hardware support to grow...
Anyone have any additional thoughts? I looked at the SATA thread
already, didn't help me much though.
On 1/18/07, Frank Cusack <fcusack at fcusack dot com> wrote:
> You must have just missed the "What SATA controllers are people using
> for ZFS?" thread. Not a list, but you can probably find similar components
> to what was recommended. I would be hestitant myself to use any other
> SATA card than what was recommended, however motherboard choice is probably
> fairly wide open.
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 19, 2007 11:07 AM
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>However, I don't think OpenSolaris/Solaris support these unless the
>Addonics eSATA PCI-X adapter supports them. I have not figured that
>one out yet. All I know is I want ZFS.
I'm not using the multiplier, but I am using the 4 port Addonics eSATA PCI-X card in a PCI slot,
btw - eSATA == SATA with a different connector and better shielding. I have an internal SATA card that I've been using with 42" SATA cables to external drives in a power chassis. Works just fine. I am doing the same with the Addonics and an eSATA to SATA adapter. It gives me a longer reach.
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 31, 2007 5:01 AM
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As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget.
2 500 GB drives with 2 120 GB in a RAIDZ. The idea is that I can get 2 more 500 GB drives later to get full capacity. I tested going from a 20GB to a 120GB and that worked well.
I'm finding the throughput just isn't there. < 2MB/s
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 31, 2007 8:23 AM
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Tom Buskey wrote:
> As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget.
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> 2 500 GB drives with 2 120 GB in a RAIDZ. The idea is that I can get 2 more 500 GB drives later to get full capacity. I tested going from a 20GB to a 120GB and that worked well.
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> I'm finding the throughput just isn't there. < 2MB/s
> Anyone else going this low budget?
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>
> This message posted from opensolaris.org
Hmm... that's lower than I would have expected. Something is
likely wrong. These machines do have very limited memory
bandwidth, so the checksumming will cost more here than on faster
CPUs.
How fast can you DD from the raw device to /dev/null?
- Bart
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Feb 7, 2007 8:02 AM
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> Tom Buskey wrote:
> > As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on
> is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget.
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> Hmm... that's lower than I would have expected.
> Something is
> ikely wrong. These machines do have very limited
> memory
> How fast can you DD from the raw device to /dev/null?
Roughly 230Mb/s
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> - Bart
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Re: Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Feb 7, 2007 8:19 AM
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Tom Buskey wrote:
>> Tom Buskey wrote:
>>> As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on
>> is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget.
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>> Hmm... that's lower than I would have expected.
>> Something is
>> ikely wrong. These machines do have very limited
>> memory
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>> How fast can you DD from the raw device to /dev/null?
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> Roughly 230Mb/s
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Do you mean ~28MB/sec?
Something is definitely bogus. What happens when you do dd
from both drives at once?
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Re: Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Feb 7, 2007 8:48 AM
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Sorry, that's dd from /dev/zero to /dev/null I think there's an issue with my SATA card On 2/7/07, Bart Smaalders <
bart dot smaalders at sun dot com> wrote:Tom Buskey wrote:
>> Tom Buskey wrote:
>>> As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on
>> is a dual PII 400 with 512MB. Real low budget.
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>> Hmm... that's lower than I would have expected.
>> Something is
>> ikely wrong. These machines do have very limited
>> memory
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>> How fast can you DD from the raw device to /dev/null?
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> Roughly 230Mb/s
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Do you mean ~28MB/sec?
Something is definitely bogus. What happens when you do dd
from both drives at once?
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 31, 2007 8:34 AM
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:01:19AM -0800, Tom Buskey wrote:
> As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400
> with 512MB. Real low budget.
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> 2 500 GB drives with 2 120 GB in a RAIDZ. The idea is that I can get
> 2 more 500 GB drives later to get full capacity. I tested going from
> a 20GB to a 120GB and that worked well.
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> I'm finding the throughput just isn't there. < 2MB/s 20MB/s on a similar Linux system.
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> Anyone else going this low budget?
There are many folks (including myself) that have done similar super-low
budget setups. Which SATA controller are you using? If it's the
SI3112, it has a documented problem when you try to use both SATA
channels simultaneously - it gets less than 2MB/s, compared to about
50MB/s on each drive individually. I'm not sure if the SI3114 has
similar problems, or not. This may not be your problem, but I know the
SI3112 was popular on machines in that timeframe.
--Bill
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 31, 2007 10:47 AM
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That's good to know.
It's a new Addonics 4 port card. Specifically:
ADS3GX4R5-E RAID5/JBOD 4-port ext. SATA II PCI-X
prtconf -v output:
pci1095,7124, instance #0
Driver properties:
name='sata' type=int items=1 dev=none
.....
name='compatible' type=string items=7
value='pci1095,3124.1095.7124.2' + 'pci1095,3124.1095.7124'
+ 'pci1095,7124' + 'pci1095,3124.2 ' + 'pci1095,3124' + 'pciclass,010400' + 'pciclass,0104'
name='model' type=string items=1
value='RAID controller'
.....
name='vendor-id' type=int items=1
value=00001095
name='device-id' type=int items=1
value=00003124
So it's based on the 3124 chip right?
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Nathan Kroenert
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 31, 2007 3:45 PM
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Urk!
Where is this documented? And - is it something you can do nothing
about, or are we ultimately trying to address it somewhere / somehow?
Thanks!!
Nathan.
Bill Moore wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:01:19AM -0800, Tom Buskey wrote:
>> As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII 400
>> with 512MB. Real low budget.
>>
>> 2 500 GB drives with 2 120 GB in a RAIDZ. The idea is that I can get
>> 2 more 500 GB drives later to get full capacity. I tested going from
>> a 20GB to a 120GB and that worked well.
>>
>> I'm finding the throughput just isn't there. < 2MB/s> 20MB/s on a similar Linux system.
>>
>> Anyone else going this low budget?
>
> There are many folks (including myself) that have done similar super-low
> budget setups. Which SATA controller are you using? If it's the
> SI3112, it has a documented problem when you try to use both SATA
> channels simultaneously - it gets less than 2MB/s, compared to about
> 50MB/s on each drive individually. I'm not sure if the SI3114 has
> similar problems, or not. This may not be your problem, but I know the
> SI3112 was popular on machines in that timeframe.
>
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> --Bill
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 31, 2007 2:02 PM
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Hello Tom,
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 2:01:19 PM, you wrote:
TB> As a followup, the system I'm trying to use this on is a dual PII
TB> 400 with 512MB. Real low budget.
TB> 2 500 GB drives with 2 120 GB in a RAIDZ. The idea is that I can
TB> get 2 more 500 GB drives later to get full capacity. I tested
TB> going from a 20GB to a 120GB and that worked well.
TB> I'm finding the throughput just isn't there. < 2MB/s 20MB/s on a similar Linux system.
TB> Anyone else going this low budget?
I've setup on Celeron 500MHz, Asus P3B-F with 256MB of RAM on S10U3.
Two 250GB ATA disk in a mirror and another 18GB ATA disk for a system.
Throughput is about 25-29MB/s. Works as expected.
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 31, 2007 2:11 PM
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So you're getting good throughput on a PATA setup. It looks my Addonics SATA card and the driver might be the culprit :-(
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 18, 2007 7:06 PM
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2007/1/18, . <clockwork at sigsys dot org>:
> 2. What consumer level SATAII chipsets work. 4-ports onboard is fine for now since I can always add a card later. I will need at least four ports to start. pci-e cards are highly preferred since pci-x is expensive and going to become rarer. (mark my words)
Something worth mentioning is that ACHI SATA controllers will be
supported in the next Nevada build. As such, I would probably look at
Intel boards instead.
Nvidia SATA support has been long awaited, but there is no clear
indication of when, if ever it will arrive. It will still work, but
with no NCQ or hot swap.
Chris
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 18, 2007 7:12 PM
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On 1/18/07, . <clockwork at sigsys dot org> wrote:
> Looking around there still is not a good "these cards/motherboards" work list. the HCL is hardly ever updated, and its far more geared towards business use than hobbyist/home use.
Yes, this is true. This list is the best resource I have found so far,
and I have been half heartedly looking for the last three months or
so. So to help you and and see if I can get some answers myself, I
will post the system I am currently looking at. I have picked these
parts up from mentions on the list:
ASUS M2NPV-VM ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131014 )
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819104245 )
SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card (
http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16815124020 )
The sata card is only a SATA 1 card, but do I care? Do the ports on
the motherboard work? (I think I saw somewhere they do in PATA
compatibility mode.)
As you can see I am going for bottom of the line, but it is just a box
to play around with, and a gigE nas box if things work out well.
So list, what do you think?
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 19, 2007 9:52 AM
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David, That would be nice, and reasonably cheap. I hope it works. The only issue I have with it is the lack of 3.5 spots, only having 3 such slots really limits the ability to grow the space over time. >> "You must have just missed the "What SATA controllers are people using for ZFS?" thread."
No. I just didnt see anything that fit my needs on the list, tons of PCI-X cards (I'm not buying an overpriced server mobo) and some "possibly" working controllers on the motherboards. >> "ACHI SATA ... probably look at Intel boards instead."
Whats ACHI ? I didnt see anything useful on google or wikipedia ... is it a chipset ? The issue I take with intel is there chips are either grossly power hungry/hot (anything pre-pentium M) or ungodly expensive (core, core 2). They dont have anything that competes with a 65W AM2 athlon64.
>> "... A8N32-SLI" That might work. I dont see a real huge win for using an opteron since this box wont be doing much at all besides fileserving/streaming media. (Heck I wish I could do it on the crappy old 32-bit hardware I have laying around, but alas ... no worky). 4 SATA ports on board would allow me to do a mirrored root. Add in a mythical pci-e card with at least 4 ports and I have what I need.
Does anybody know of a guaranteed working pci-e 2 port card ? Must be pci-e. On 1/18/07, David <
akda5id+zfs at gmail dot com> wrote:On 1/18/07, . <
clockwork at sigsys dot org> wrote:
> Looking around there still is not a good "these cards/motherboards" work list. the HCL is hardly ever updated, and its far more geared towards business use than hobbyist/home use.
Yes, this is true. This list is the best resource I have found so far,
and I have been half heartedly looking for the last three months or
so. So to help you and and see if I can get some answers myself, I
will post the system I am currently looking at. I have picked these
parts up from mentions on the list:
ASUS M2NPV-VM ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131014
)
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819104245 )
SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card (
http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16815124020 )
The sata card is only a SATA 1 card, but do I care? Do the ports on
the motherboard work? (I think I saw somewhere they do in PATA
compatibility mode.)
As you can see I am going for bottom of the line, but it is just a box
to play around with, and a gigE nas box if things work out well.
So list, what do you think?
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Re: Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 19, 2007 11:19 AM
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2007/1/19, clockwork at sigsys dot org <clockwork at sigsys dot org>:
> >> "ACHI SATA ... probably look at Intel boards instead."
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> Whats ACHI ? I didnt see anything useful on google or wikipedia ... is it a
> chipset ? The issue I take with intel is there chips are either grossly
> power hungry/hot (anything pre-pentium M) or ungodly expensive (core, core
> 2). They dont have anything that competes with a 65W AM2 athlon64.
Oops, I seem to have transposed some characters while typing that. It
is AHCI: Advanced Host Controller Interface. Many hardware vendors
are standardizing on this specification for SATA interfaces. The most
common ones are found in the Intel ICH6R, ICH7R, and ICH8R south
bridges, but others from VIA, Nvidia, SiS and Jmicron are planned or
available.
See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/projects/AHCI
The driver is fairly new and does not support much at present, but it
should be a safe bet in the future. As for PCIe cards, I think the
only options are the the two port SiI3132 and Jmicron based cards.
Sorry about the typo.
Chris
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 30, 2007 2:00 PM
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> On 1/18/07, . <clockwork at sigsys dot org> wrote:
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> SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card (
> http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E168
> 15124020 )
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From my home ZFS server setup, I had tried two Syba SD-SATA2-2E2I PCI-X SATA II Controller Cards without any luck; both cards' BIOS' wouldn't recgonize my SATA drives.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816124003R
Although the Syba tech support was reasonable, they only helped conclude that BOTH of the cards I had received were defective - yep, that was 0 and 2.
Perhaps the other model listed above works better, I don't know. In the end, I just stuck with my onboard SATA I/O which is only SATA 150, but was still fast enough for my network.
For my ZFS home server, I was able to find an excellent Sun W1100z on eBay ~$360 that came with a 2.4GHz Opteron, 1GB ECC RAM, Quardro FX 500, and 80Gb IDE drive - perfect for the basis of my ZFS server build-up. To that I've added two Seagate Barracude ES ST3400620NS 400Gb SATA II drives for about $360 that now run my 400Gb whole-disk ZFS mirror. Overall I'm in for $720 for a great server/workstation with 400Gb of redundant storage, not bad, and performance is much better, with much greater functionality, than most $1,000+ home NAS systems I've seen.
At first I thought I'd toss the IDE drive, but I ended up just put the OS on it with all my data and zones on the ZFS mirror...at least until ZFS root.
One of these days I'll get around to finishing the blog about it: http://classiarius.com/W1100z%20Home%20ZFS%20Server/W1100z%20Home%20ZFS%20Server.html
HTH.
Wes W.
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Re: Cheap ZFS homeserver.
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Jan 18, 2007 9:41 PM
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, . wrote:
> Looking around there still is not a good "these cards/motherboards" work
> list. the HCL is hardly ever updated, and its far more geared towards
> business use than hobbyist/home use. So bearing all of that in mind I
> will need the following things:
> 1. At least 2 gigE nics.
> 2. At least 6 SATAII ports (and at least 6 drive slots)
> 3. Reasonable price (probably going to build it myself.)
I can give you another working recipe - one that may not meet your needs
exactly, but one that will work nicely. This particular recipe was not a
design based on a clean-sheet-of-paper - but rather, my Sun Ultra 20
motherboard died and I wanted a replacement system that would provide a
classic *workstation* function while also providing (extra SATA disk drive
bays for) ZFS-based storage and allow re-use of the (heavily modified)
Ultra-20 parts. This is the resulting system which is *highly*
satisfactory/stable as a desktop driving two LCD panels[0], while
providing ZFS filespace and software development facilities and currently
running 6 zones under Solaris Update 3:
Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI Delux NB: AMD 939-pin socket
CPU: AMD x4200 X2 dual-core CPU with 1Mb L2 cache per core [1]
RAM: 2 * Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2PT 2Gb kit (4Gb total)
Case: Antec P180 mid-tower (comes with no PSU)
ZFS disks: 2 * Seagate 500GB SATA ST3500641AS (on sale @ Frys)
Boot disk: Western Digital 74Gb SATA WDC WD740GD-00FLA1 [1]
PSU: SS-500HT (500W) [1]
Graphics: 7800GT [1][3]
CDROM/DVD: Plextor 716A slot-loader [1] (the only one to work with the
Ultra-20 front panel)
Add ins:
- Gigabyte I-ram (GC-RAMDISK) with 4*Kingston KVR400X74C3A/1G DIMMs [1][2]
- extra Antec TriCool 120mm 3-speed fan (front panel)
The motherboard was setup using the Asus automatic overclock BIOS function
set to +10% and the x4200 appears as an x4400 [4]
Notes:
a) Upside: The Antec P180 provides a compartment (at the bottom of the
case) which includes 4-bay SATA disk drive bay in front of a 1" * 120mm
fan which holds 4 * SATA drives mounted on silicon vibration dampers and
the Power Supply Unit (PSU). This compartment has airflow which is
separated from the main motherboard area of the case. There is extra
space between the disk drives and cooling is excellent.
b) Downside: The PSU wiring harness, coming upwards from the PSU/disk
drive compartment, blocks off access to some of the neighbouring
motherboard expansion slots.
c) Upside: There are lots of disk drive bays - aside from the ones
mentioned in the bottom PSU compartment.
d) I found that 4 of the built-in (motherboard) SATA ports worked with no
effort. The other two SATA ports did not work on first try - but no
effort was expended trying to make them work. Currently the 4 working
SATA ports are assigned:
1) WD740 boot drive
2) Seagate 500Gb drive (ZFS mirror)
3) Seagate 500Gb drive (ZFS mirror)
4) Gigabyte I-ram
e) Downside: The build time for this box was longer that usual. Perhaps
because of the extra "head scratching" time required to figure out the
unusual case layout (power supply at the bottom and all wiring going
vertically upwards) and the time it took to route the wiring and cable-tie
everything neatly.
If you decide to try this recipe, snag a 939-pin Model 165 Opteron
dual-core processor (before the supply dries up completely). These are
known to overclock easily and reliably to 2.6GHz+. There are many (now
old) articles describing how to do this and the Asus A8N32-SLI Delux is
known as a motherboard that is easy/reliable to overclock. Checkout
newegg.com and zipzoomfly.com for the CPU. Hurry before they are gone!!
NB: I know that the 939-pin AMD family is already EOL - but these
components are rock solid and high performance. But buy the long term
config your want *now*, since it will be impossible to upgrade this system
later.
Email me offlist if you have any questions.
[0] Dell 3007WFP 30" panel running at 2560x1600 and iiyama AU5131DT
running at 1600x1200 running under Twinview using the Sun/Nvidia driver
version *9746 driver (twinview config provided by nvidia-config).
[1] moved from the (modified) Ultra-20
[2] used to provide test zones that can be deployed pretty quickly and can
provide fast swap space, if necessary.
[3] BFG GeForce 7800GT OC (The OC indicates that its over-clocked)
[4] # psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 01/18/2007 23:16:43
on-line since 01/01/2007 21:15:39.
The i386 processor operates at 2420 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 01/18/2007 23:16:43
on-line since 01/01/2007 21:15:45.
The i386 processor operates at 2420 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al@logical-approach.com
Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT
OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005
OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Feb 2006
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