I recently wrote about a tower case solution which sliced $500 off the cost. Last night we found an ASUS m/b for a Phenom II which supports ECC. This will be a cheaper faster solution. I will, however, have to buy a NIC. This NIC runs a Realtek chipset. No thanks. LIAN LI PC-A71F Black […]
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Based on several recent posts, I found a new case, which I like quite a bit. My thanks to Dan Naumov for the concept. LIAN LI PC-A71F Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case $240 (from mwave) Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W PSU $80 Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) Intel S3200SHV LGA 775
Wes Morgan suggested this: Athena Power CA-SWH01BH8 Pedestal case $270 Antec CP-850 850W PSU $109 Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) Intel S3200SHV LGA 775 Intel 3200 m/b $200 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 CPU $190 SATA cables $60 Supermicro LSI MegaRAID 8 Port SAS RAID Controller $118 Kingston ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB)
I am redoing the previous Supermicro quote to reflect some recent decisions. Specifically, changing to LSI from RocketRaid. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping) LSI SAS 3081E-R $235 SATA cables $60 Crucial 3x2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping) Xeon W3520 $310 Total price with shipping $1560 I
Let’s price out the Athena now: Athena Power CA-SWH01BH8 Pedestal case $270 Antec CP-850 850W $20 Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 Intel S3420GPLC LGA 1156 Intel 3420 ATX Intel Xeon $205 Intel Xeon X3430 Lynnfield 2.4GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Server Processor Model BX80605X3430 $210 Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
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Given my previous post regarding the number of ports, I’ve started to consider this LSI SAS 3081E-R from LSI. It has native FreeBSD support via the mpt(4) driver. I can get one for about $240 shipped. I’d need a couple of cables too. Based on this, I’m going to price out the system with that
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For some reason, I want my future file server to have space for 8 hot-swap HDD. Those HDD will house the RAIDZ cluster of my ZFS array (although that particular terminology sounds odd). Why do I want hot-swap? Because I can. It costs about $100 for a drive cage for 4 SATA drives. That’s +$25
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People have asked me why I’m creating what amounts to a NAS. Why don’t I use Drobo or SmartStor for example? The above don’t have ZFS, which is the best solution for redundant storage. I can’t install Bacula on those systems. Sure, Bacula could run on another system and access that storage, but being directly
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Let’s look at this combination: Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) HP ProLiant ML150 G6 E5506 $850(+$43 shipping) RocketRAID 2300 PCIe 4x SATA $120 (+$8 shipping) Crucial 3x2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping) Total price in cart: $1178.97 + $42.90 shipping = $1,221.87 So the premium for the Supermicro is about $220.
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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