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Date:      Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:35:10 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Subject:   Re: hardware for home use large storage
Message-ID:  <201002141735.18275.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4B779561.7000205@langille.org>
References:  <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <4B779561.7000205@langille.org>

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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:
> After creating three different system configurations (Athena,
> Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro
> setup:
>
> =A0 =A0 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)
> =A0 =A0 2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping)
> =A0 =A0 3. LSI SAS 3081E-R $235
> =A0 =A0 4. SATA cables $60
> =A0 =A0 5. Crucial 3=D72G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping)
> =A0 =A0 6. Xeon W3520 $310
>
> Total price with shipping $1560
>
> Details and links at http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/14/supermicro/
>
> I'll probably start with 5 HDD in the ZFS array, 2x gmirror'd drives
> for the boot, and 1 optical drive (so 8 SATA ports).

That is f**king expensive for a home setup :)

I priced a decent ZFS PC for a small business and it was AUD$2500=20
including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc..

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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