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Date:      Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:21:20 +0200
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To:        Stefan Hagen <freebsd-stable-list@textmail.me>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: recommendations for file server based zfs appliance
Message-ID:  <DB5E344C-034D-4438-BEAF-10F191D63A98@punkt.de>
In-Reply-To: <20170818120351.GA37121@shell-jail>
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Hi!

> Am 18.08.2017 um 14:03 schrieb Stefan Hagen =
<freebsd-stable-list@textmail.me>:
>=20
> * Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>>> Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French =
<petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>:
>>> The HP micro servers work very well, and you can pick them up =
remakably cheaply [...]
>>> Not sure about ECC memory support there though.
>>=20
>> They do support ECC, no problem.
>>=20
>> They are available with different CPU configurations from
>> as Pete said remarkably cheap Celeron D based systems
>> up to Xeon CPUs.
>=20
> I've just sold my Microserver Gen8 (Xeon) just recently.
> It's a beautiful little machine, but I didn't make me happy in the =
long run.
>=20
> Reasons:
> - Limited to 8GB Ram in total
> - Only 4 HDDs
> - JBOD support is not great
> - Harddrives are never going to sleep (not supported)
>=20
> Installing FreeBSD was harder than expected. The machine refused to =
boot FreeBSD
> from the internal non-raid SATA ports. I didn't try FreeNAS though.

smbios.system.product=3D"ProLiant MicroServer Gen8"
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220L V2 @ 2.30GHz (2294.80-MHz K8-class =
CPU)

16 GB RAM, FreeBSD installation was no problem at all.

What do you mean by "JBOD support"? Disable RAID in the systems BIOS
setup, put ZFS on AHCI drives ...

ahci0: <Intel Cougar Point AHCI SATA controller> port =
0x10c0-0x10c7,0x10c8-0x10cb,0x10d0-0x10d7,0x10d8-0x10db,0x10e0-0x10ff =
mem 0xfacd0000-0xfacd07ff irq 17 at device 31.2 on pci0
ahci0: [ITHREAD]
ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 6 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported
ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0
ahcich0: [ITHREAD]
ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <WDC WD2000FYYZ-01UL1B0 01.01K01> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: Command Queueing enabled
ada0: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)

This is our office file, print and mail server. No FreeNAS this time,
just plain FreeBSD.

Patrick

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