Thursday, February 11th, 2010
For the file server, perhaps one of these three combinations:
Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 4@$300 - $1200 8TB or $150/TB
SAMSUNG F1 RAID Class HE103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ 4@$150 - $600 4TB or $150/TB
Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Following on from my previous post on my file server, here is what
I’m now looking at. It’s based upon various discussions on mailing lists and IRC channels.
Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)
SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping)
RocketRAID 2300 PCIe 4x SATA $120 (+$8 shipping)
Crucial 3×2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping)
Xeon W3520 $310
Total […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
This is the current thinking for my soon-to-be-built storage server.
I should consult freebsd-hardware first.
Athena Power CA-SWH01BH8 Pedestal case
The above case comes with two of these backplanes
close up photos of that backplane
mother board? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130136 was suggseted.
m/b will either need 8 SATA connections or room for several cheap SATA controllers
power supply, probably dependent upon the M/B […]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
This post is unfinished.
This is the old box:
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Sep 19 11:34:09 EDT 2007
dan@polo.unixathome.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POLO
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
Timecounter “i8254″ frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2806.38-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = “GenuineIntel” Id = […]
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