[OmniOS-discuss] OT: Similar hardware like MIcroserver Gen8

[C. L. Martinez]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks jimklimov, but my idea is not to use a microserver box due to
> problems with SATA disks in AHCI mode under Gen8 series ... And Gen7
> is too slowly machines ...
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:24 AM, jimklimov at cos.ru <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
>> I've recently coordinated a maxed-out build of Gen7 N54L Microserver (my
>> brother bought and assembled the parts) with 2*8gb ecc ram. Its main
>> advantage is the ODD bay where you can mount 2.5" cradles for up to 6 small
>> disks - laptop sized hdds or ssds, so that your big 3.5" disks are used only
>> for the data pool. We went with raidz1 to maximize space (4*4tb hdds), but
>> if you are not too constrained in this regard, raid10 should be better for
>> reliability, efficiency and performance.
>>
>> Also, our build ultimately connected all disk bays to an 8-port (2*4-port
>> fanout cables) LSI card. Make sure to use half-height short cards, our first
>> bet did not fit ;)
>>
>> Performance is not quite stellar due to the cpu, but decent. The SSDs (iirc
>> mirrored Seagate 600 Pro with powerloss protection, at 120gb formatted to
>> only use 100gb, for rpool and l2arc for metadata, zil is configured but
>> stays empty) do rock :)
>>
>> So while we looked at hacking another bios as many users do to gain better
>> control of the mobo sata ports, we had no reason to risk this so far - these
>> ports are not currently used at all.
>>
>> Typos courtesy of my Samsung Mobile
>>
>>
>> -------- Исходное сообщение --------
>> От: "C. L. Martinez" <carlopmart at gmail.com>
>> Дата: 2013.12.18 22:05 (GMT+04:00)
>> Кому: omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com
>> Тема: [OmniOS-discuss] OT: Similar hardware like MIcroserver Gen8
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It is time to migrate my home NAS server (an old Pentium host) to a
>> new brand server. I am thinking to use a similar server like
>> Microserver Gen8. Searching in this mailing lists I see some threads
>> about problems with this type of server.
>>
>> Any hardware recommendation?? I prefer to use HP or Lenovo boxes than
>> to buy every component, but I accept all type of suggestions.
>>


Please any more inputs??