[OmniOS-discuss] HP Z230 as a home server

[Dominik Hassler]

hi,

it's about a year since i got in touch with illumos/solaris and zfs for
the first time. i absolutely don't want to miss it anymore, especially
zfs. omniti/dan and the whole illumos community are doing a great job.
thank you!


of course i'd like to have an omnios server at home, too. nothing fancy,
basically just for data storage (nfs and smb sharing) and 1-2 linux kvms
for multimedia services and auxiliary stuff. since i don't have a
dedicated room where noise does not matter i have to consider quiet
"workstation hardware" instead of noisy "server hardware".

here is the hardware setup i am planning to go with:
- HP Z230 (WM583EA#UUZ) which is basically
  -> Intel PCH C226 chipset
  -> E3-1225v3 quad core XEON
  -> Intel I217LM PCIe Gigabit-Controller

- 4x 8 GB ECC RAM (HP A2Z50AA)
- 1x 1 TB WD Re, S-ATA III (512n) as rpool
- 2x 4 TB WD Re, S-ATA III (512n) as a data mirror


what do you think about this hardware setup? any no-gos?

thanks
dominik
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