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

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

Hi Phil,

Interesting . . .     do you have a single volume ?  or multiple volumes /
SMB shares ?  How can you add / upgrade drives ?

The SATA backplane's are certainly a good idea.

I like the idea of using some older kit but it always seems to die just
after a month or two after the initial build.

Rich
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> On 18/03/2008, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >   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.
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> > Works great and I've even got it pretty quiet too!
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> > Phil
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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> > ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> > > Of Richard Utting
> > > Sent: 18 March 2008 18:47
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] OT - Multi-Terrabyte storage via ZFS for
the home
> > ;-)
> > >
> > > With 1TB HD's now around =A3130 ea inc VAT, www.scan.co.uk I
have bee=
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> > > 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 HC=
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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 =A31=
10
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> > > Just 3 HD's to start with and feed them in as required or
rather as
> > > funds
> > > allow
> > >
> > > Has anyone done anything similar ?
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> > > TIA
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