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

[C. L. Martinez]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:22 PM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 ...
>>
>> Gen7 too slow for you? Didn't you say you're doing a home NAS? Don't
>> underestimate the venerable MicroServer, it's plenty fast enough to
>> saturate its Gigabit NIC, even while transparently compressing:
>> https://www.illumos.org/attachments/822/lz4_compression_bench.ods
>> (This is a set of ZFS LZ4 compression benchmarks I ran on my old Gen6
>> MicroServer box, so a Gen7 is even faster than this.)
>>
>> Unless you're doing some serious compute or web serving I wouldn't worry
>> about it. It's only 25W TDP, so you won't break the bank running the
>> thing 24x7 at home, and it's multi-core and has HVM and ECC memory support.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Saso
>
> Thanks Saso ... I have discarded Microserver N56L due to the reports
> provided by people in their blogs about poor performance with AMD cpu
> using it with ZFS (most of them with FreeNAS).
>
> But, if I buy a Microserver N56L, do I need to buy some additonal
> storage adapter or it is ok with the default??


And another point, I need to use this NAS with OmniOS to serve iscsi
disks for one KVM host (CentOS).