I''m also about to set up a small home server. This little box http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&prod=39 is able housing six 3,5" hdd''s and also has one 2,5" bay, eg for an ssd. Fine. I need to know which SATA controller cards (both PCI and PCI-E) are supported in OS, also I''d be grateful for tips on which ones to use in a non-pro environment. My problem, I can''t find the HCL for Open Solaris. Thanks in advance for a link.> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:16:10 -0700 > From: Brandon High <bhigh at freaks.com> > To: ZFS discuss <zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org> > Subject: [zfs-discuss] ZFS home server > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinUkJ0IHv3i6lj2XrkvjIA8wW4586VU_I8kJmia at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I''ve been thinking about building a small NAS box for my father in law > to back his home systems up to. He mistakenly bought a Drobo, but his > Macs refuse to use it as a Time Machine target, even with the afp > protocol. > > I came across a review of the ASUS TS Mini, which comes with an Atom > N280, 1GB RAM, 2 drive bays (one with a Seagate 7200.12 500gb drive), > and lots of external ports. Photos in some review show an RGB port > inside. Since it was cheap, I ordered one to play with. > > It''s turned out to be a great small NAS and case. It''s 9.5" high, > 3.75" wide, and 8" deep. Power is from an external brick. The top is > held on with thumb screws, which once removed let you pull out the > drive cage. The bottom cover is held on by some philips screws. This > also gives you access to the single DDR2 SO-DIMM slot. There are also > solder pads for a second memory slot and for a PCIe 1x slot. If you''re > handy with a soldering iron, you could double your memory. > > Taking the back cover off lets you get at the VGA. You need to use a > Torx-9 driver and remove the 8 or so screws, then loosen the > motherboard to take it out. Once out, you can see that the RBG port > can be trimmed out of the back plate with a razor or dremel. > > The two internal drives are connected to the ICH7-M southbridge. It > looks like a sideways PCIe 1x slot on the motherboard, but it''s the > sata and power connectors for the internal drives, so don''t think you > can plug a different card in. > > The two external eSATA ports are provided via a Marvell 88SE6121 PCIe > SATA controller, which supports PMP. There are also 6 USB ports on the > back. All of this is supported by OpenSolaris. > > When booting with a monitor and keyboard attached, you can hit DEL to > get into the BIOS and change any settings. There''s nothing that > prevents you from replacing the provided Windows Home Server. > > I''ve currently got the system running NexentaStor Community, booting > off of a 4GB USB drive. Large writes (eg: DVD iso) go at about 20MB/s > over GigE, and reads are about 40MB/s. > > It''s not the fanciest or fastest system, but I think it''ll work fine > as an iSCSI target for Time Machine. And my FIL can even use the Drobo > as external USB drives if he wants. > > -B > >
----- "Annika" <annika669 at telia.com> skrev:> I''m also about to set up a small home server. This little box > http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&prod=39 > is able housing six 3,5" hdd''s and also has one 2,5" bay, eg for an > ssd. > Fine. > > I need to know which SATA controller cards (both PCI and PCI-E) are > supported in OS, also I''d be grateful for tips on which ones to use in > a > non-pro environment.See http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/ for supported hardware. There was also a post in her yesterday or perhaps earlier today about the choice of SAS/SATA controllers. Most will do in a home server environment, though. AOC-SAT2-MV8 are great controllers, but run on PCI-X, which isn''t very compatible with PCI Express Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 roy at karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et element?rt imperativ for alle pedagoger ? unng? eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer p? norsk.
The Intel SASUC8I Is a pretty good deal. around 150 dollars for 8 sas/sata channels. This card is identical to the LSI SAS3081E-R for a lot less money. It doesn''t come with cables, but this leaves you free to buy the type you need (in my case, i needed SFF-8087 - SFF-8087 cables, some people will need SFF-8087- 4 sata breakout cables...either way, cables run 12-20 dollars each (and each card needs 2) so you can tack that on to the price....These cards also work well with expanders. They are based on LSI 1068e chip. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net>wrote:> ----- "Annika" <annika669 at telia.com> skrev: > > > I''m also about to set up a small home server. This little box > > http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&prod=39 > > is able housing six 3,5" hdd''s and also has one 2,5" bay, eg for an > > ssd. > > Fine. > > > > I need to know which SATA controller cards (both PCI and PCI-E) are > > supported in OS, also I''d be grateful for tips on which ones to use in > > a > > non-pro environment. > > See http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/ for supported hardware. There > was also a post in her yesterday or perhaps earlier today about the choice > of SAS/SATA controllers. Most will do in a home server environment, though. > AOC-SAT2-MV8 are great controllers, but run on PCI-X, which isn''t very > compatible with PCI Express > > Best regards > > roy > -- > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk > (+47) 97542685 > roy at karlsbakk.net > http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ > -- > I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det > er et element?rt imperativ for alle pedagoger ? unng? eksessiv anvendelse av > idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate > og relevante synonymer p? norsk. > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20100515/9be457eb/attachment.html>