The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably cheaply if you look. I have six of these in various laces, all running ZFS and FreeBSD to perform various funcytions. Not sure about ECC memory support there though. Also theres only one expansion slot, which we ut 10 gig cards into (low profile). They all used to come with ull iLo support too, though I understand the most recent model drops this. -pete. On 18/08/2017 10:11, Sami Halabi wrote:> Hi all, > > I am planning to use zfs appliance for backup purposes, do you have > reccomenations for small box with 4-16 gb ram ecc, and 4 hard drives > sas/sata. > > Thanks in advance, > Sami > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >
Patrick M. Hausen
2017-Aug-18 09:40 UTC
recommendations for file server based zfs appliance
Hi, all,> Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk>: > The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up remakably cheaply [...] > Not sure about ECC memory support there though.They do support ECC, no problem. They are available with different CPU configurations from as Pete said remarkably cheap Celeron D based systems up to Xeon CPUs. If you want something that conserves power but still features 8 cores, Supermicro has got a small 8-core Atom based system: https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028A-TN4.cfm I run this at home and I am really satisfied with it. ECC too, of course. Capable of running VMs in bhyve ... I'd suggest just using FreeNAS if you intend to build a file server. And of course you can always order a preconfigured FreeNAS mini from iX Systems. HTH, Patrick -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 496 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20170818/7dafabff/attachment.sig>