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

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Coolermaster CM Stacker,
AMD Athlon XP 2800+,
ASUS mobo,
1Gb RAM,
Windows XP,
3 x PCI to 4 x SATA Cards from Linitx (about =A312 each)
6 x 1Tb drives
4 x 500Gb drives
3 x 4-in-3 SATA Backplanes.

Works great and I've even got it pretty quiet too!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Richard Utting
> Sent: 18 March 2008 18:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] OT - Multi-Terrabyte storage via ZFS for the home
;-)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> But what CPU and m/board combo would you guys recommend, say =A3250 +
> memory
> Quad maybe ?!?!?
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> Sun Open Source Solaris 10 would be the OS
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> I was figured get two SATA controllers these are listed on the SUN HCL
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> Supermicro 8 Port SATA 2 Card (PCI/PCI-X) AOC-SAT2-MV8 =A366 ea
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> Monster case =3D CoolerMaster Stacker RC-810 Black Tower 11 Bays
=A3110
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> Just 3 HD's to start with and feed them in as required or rather as
> funds
> allow
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> Has anyone done anything similar ?
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> TIA
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