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Well I guess since I started this whole mess.....

Put me down for an owner

Ram = 2 x 1gig ram

Drives will be
1 x 2tb
3 x 1tb
4 x 500g in CDrom bay
1 x 250g under CDrom bay

IBM BR10i sas card

Will probably put WHS v1 on it, then later if I get 8gig ram will change that to SE11

 

That looks great, thanks for the info guys!

 

I have 1 that I'll be using as a storage box, most likely FreeNAS.
Using the extra RAM stick out of my workmates box (he upgraded to 2x 4GB non-ECC for VM usage) to get me up to 2GB.

Anyone have thoughts on a good bang for buck RAID-5 capable drive controller? I have a few 2TB HDDs that I'd like to use as a basis for now (thinking 3x in RAID-5 to start with). Something that has potential to link up to an external drive cage in the future would be good, so around 8 drives in total.

Otherwise I will get some extra 2TB drives for a ZFS array and expansion can be a problem for (future)Jenx.

 

My first box arrived - with 8gb of ram, be using this one for a VMWare ESXi testbed.
Second one is due tomorrow or Thursday, fitting that one out with 8gb of ECC, a BR10i, and 5 2tb Hitachi's. This will be setup with Solaris Express 11 running ZFS, with the 5 drives in a RaidZ pool.

Third one incoming is for GF's dad, setting that up as a basic Windows 2008R2 file server running SickBeard, SABNZD+ and uTorrent.

 

Box 1:

Windows Home Server 2011 - Build for my Dad
2x2GB Ram
250GB HDD is going into the 5.25" bay
2x2TB Samsung F4EGs for now. He has disks already he'll probably add.

Box 2:

ESXi / Citrix / Etc Devbox
2x2GB Ram
4x1TB WD Greens

Box 3/4:

??? Not sure if these will even be coming

 

I'll probably leave these running 24x7 but has anyone worked out how to do a timed start?

 

Got mine today, probably either going to do a FreeNAS setup or WHS 2011, not 100% sure as to which right now though, but will have probably the following when I bother to build it properly:

2x2TB Samsung F4
2x1.5TB WDEADS

 

Got mine yesterday

8GB RAM now running ESXi with 3x500GB and the Stock 250GB

 

Slackware Linux

Going to load 4x1tb drives I have spare into it ... load slackware linux on it. Will probably leave it at 1gig memory for now.

I will:

a) Configure 4 drives into raid 5 array with 128kb stripes.
b) Install slackware onto the raid 5 array.
c) Install an old 256meg USB flash chip into the internal USB port.
d) Put /boot onto the USB flash and install lilo on it.

That way, linux kernel will boot from the flash chip, assemble the raid 5 array, and then boot normally into linux. This nicely works around the fact that you can't load the linux kernel from a raid 5 array.

I may at a later stage make it a 2 stage boot, with initrd being loaded from the flash for a recovery style console, but I don't think it really is needed.

Edit: I will be using it as a backup array for my primary NAS/server unit. Samba is pretty awesome and stuff

 

Thats a VERY full house, 9 drives.... and a sas card
I wonder how the little 200watt power supply will handle the startup load, hope they are not all Seagate Hdd !

 

got my 2 today

1 will be simple esxi machine with local store and shared store to the other one, will be mainly for OS/app testing

otherone will be test zfs machine, config to be finalised, both upgraded to 8gig

 

Especially when it's only 150 watts.

 

I've got one on the way - should receive it in a day or 2. If all goes to plan mine will probably get FreeBSD 8.2

 

I've got one, potentially another on the way for the old man.

I'm running NexentaStor Community Edition with 4 x 2TB disks, plus an 8GB usb stick for the OS drive. Currently only 1GB of ram, but 8GB of ECC Kingston ram on the way.

 

HP also list three 200w versions on their website, but yeah - it appears the 250GB HDD version we're all getting is 150w max (appears to be the lowest end model).

 

Chalk me up for one.

Ubuntu Server for File/Print server and MythTV backend.

Starting with original HDD as boot and WD Caviar green 2tb, will expand hdd and RAM as funds available.

 

Should be ok, as the SAS card will do staggered spinup of 8 drives
the 4 x 2.5's should drag bugger all, and 3 of the 1tb drives are green....don't know the power usage of the 2tb hitachi or the 250gig drive tho

see how it goes once all the bits arrive Speshly the 4 bay supernicro...

Failing that I have some ghetto interesting mods to max this lil sucker right out

 

It's probably 150w continuous rated load, but something like 200w peak.

 

Got mine today!!! unpacking..and installing RAM and HDDs now..


I mixed 1GB ecc with 4GB non ecc.. it showed up as 5GB on bios..

 

I did that by mistake too.. made me laugh ... pretty cool that it runs and sees it though