HP ProLiant MicroServer Owners Club! (Attempting to sell here will result in bans)

[GooSE]

Originally Posted by encode

It would be nice if we had a summary of people's configuration (most notably exact hdd model) and reported speeds.

I haven't had much luck finding definite into on whether 2TB drives with 4k sectors will work ok with ZFS or not.

While there is plenty of anecdotal evidence saying that it works okay with various hacks or tweaks, I'd probably steer clear. If you haven't purchased drives yet, just go for a 512 byte drive (like the Hitachi 5K3000). Better to be safe than sorry.

[Twizzly]

anyone getting the remote access card?
everywhere seems to be on backorder.

[oli]

Originally Posted by GooSE

I'm using FreeBSD, but I assume it would be similar on Linux and Solaris. I partitioned the USB flash drive with only one partition and then set up /etc/fstab like so:

• The USB flash drive is mounted at /
• /var/run, /var/tmp, /var/log and /tmp are RAM disks
• There is no swap

I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to all things *nix, so if anyone has any comments on this I'd like to hear it.

I asked on IRC yesterday and a few more tips for running *nix on Flash drives:

- turn of atime option so that there's no write on each access time to files
- use a non-journalling file system on the flash drive (e.g. ext2)

Originally Posted by encode

It would be nice if we had a summary of people's configuration (most notably exact hdd model) and reported speeds.

I haven't had much luck finding definite into on whether 2TB drives with 4k sectors will work ok with ZFS or not.

Should I put together a Google docs spreadsheet so we can all just input our info there? What does everyone think?

[Tali]

Spose im on the list too now

Received mine yesterday in Adelaide first thing in the morning at work.

6x2TB Samsung Drives, Fileserver/Media Server, Debian Squeeze

[cacaw]

Sign me up.

ESXi - Slackware/Centos/Trixbox

[GooSE]

Originally Posted by Twizzly

anyone getting the remote access card?
everywhere seems to be on backorder.

FYI: Ingram Micro is showing no stock until 09/06/2011.

[oli]

Updated first post with link to publicly editable google spreadsheet! Enter your info there. Add columns for drives or whatever as well to suit. I am not sure what other info people want to share.

[^catalyst]

quick! everyone on gdocs spreadsheet chat!

[Twizzly]

Originally Posted by ^catalyst

quick! everyone on gdocs spreadsheet chat!

well that was a jolly good conversation.

[rmuser]

Quick question to those who have received theirs already. Do they come with a kb and/or mouse?

[SaTaN]

Originally Posted by rmuser

Quick question to those who have received theirs already. Do they come with a kb and/or mouse?

no! they do have a power cable though.
also, they dont have a sata cable for the ODD drive so remember to buy one if you dont have one lieing around

[Stanza]

Originally Posted by SaTaN

no! they do have a power cable though.
also, they dont have a sata cable for the ODD drive so remember to buy one if you dont have one lieing around

and a Molex to Sata power adapter

[rmuser]

Originally Posted by SaTaN

no! they do have a power cable though.
also, they dont have a sata cable for the ODD drive so remember to buy one if you dont have one lieing around

Thanks. I know this is probably sacreligious around here but I am not gonna fill mine to the brim with drives just yet, nor am I going to flash the BIOS to get full performance on the eSATA and onboard SATA port.

Just a USB stick for /boot and 4 x 3.5" HDD in RAID10 to start. I'm even thinking I will try the broadcom NIC before I go out and get a better one. Has anyone determined whether it does Jumbo Frames? In the past I have had Dell servers with broadcom NICs that Dell _say_ support Jumbo Frames. But Dell lied...

If the onboard NIC cuts it I may put a SATA/SAS (RAID) card in the 1x PCIe and a 4 x 2.5" caddy in the ODD bay but being a cheap bastard I probably won't.

[luztra]

Originally Posted by rmuser

Quick question to those who have received theirs already. Do they come with a kb and/or mouse?

If you need a mouse and keyboard (like me), you can get the genuine HP mouse and keyboard set from MSY for $23 - or if making any purchase over $10 - you can get the Microsoft Desktop 400 mouse and keyboard set (both are wired/USB).

[Soarer GT]

Originally Posted by rmuser

Thanks. I know this is probably sacreligious around here but I am not gonna fill mine to the brim with drives just yet, nor am I going to flash the BIOS to get full performance on the eSATA and onboard SATA port.

Just a USB stick for /boot and 4 x 3.5" HDD in RAID10 to start. I'm even thinking I will try the broadcom NIC before I go out and get a better one. Has anyone determined whether it does Jumbo Frames? In the past I have had Dell servers with broadcom NICs that Dell _say_ support Jumbo Frames. But Dell lied...

If the onboard NIC cuts it I may put a SATA/SAS (RAID) card in the 1x PCIe and a 4 x 2.5" caddy in the ODD bay but being a cheap bastard I probably won't.

Why dont you use the included 250gig hdd? Make that your boot drive in the ODD slot and use the 4 down below for your raid 10 set.

I'm not a fan of having esata from the back and routing it into the case, so I'm sticking with 5 drives. I tried to install OpenSolaris 11 Express onto a USB but wanted to *wrists* after the first hour.

The other option is to have a 5 disk RaidZ2 with FreeNas (apparently they are working on fast-tracking the ZFS Version to 28... maybe 2 months away... regardless, bit too late for us though)

So I'm looking at a tried and tested solution of Ubuntu on the 250gig located in ODD, and 4x2TB drives in MDADM raid 5. It's something I know works 100% and will easily saturate a GigE link.