OT - Multi-Terrabyte storage via ZFS for the home ;-)

["Richard Utting" <richard.utting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With 1TB HD's now around =A3130 ea inc VAT, www.scan.co.uk I have been
thinking of the home storage holly grail . . . .  a dedicated host to take
the place of all my disperate external USB / Firewire drives.

10Tb of online storage is perfectly possible with 12 HD's losing one as the
Hot Spare the other to parity, its been a while so maybe not.


But what CPU and m/board combo would you guys recommend, say =A3250 +
memor=
y
Quad maybe ?!?!?


Sun Open Source Solaris 10 would be the OS

I was figured get two SATA controllers these are listed on the SUN HCL

Supermicro 8 Port SATA 2 Card (PCI/PCI-X) AOC-SAT2-MV8 =A366 ea

Monster case =3D CoolerMaster Stacker RC-810 Black Tower 11 Bays =A3110


Just 3 HD's to start with and feed them in as required or rather as funds
allow

Has anyone done anything similar ?


TIA


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