[OmniOS-discuss] HP Z230 as a home server

Brogyányi József brogyi at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 22:03:14 UTC 2014


Hi

- I definitely choose E3-1230v3 CPU. - Not need any VGA and better CPU.
- 2x WD7500BFCX mirror rpool - I'm sure if I were you I sliced the HDD. 
100GB is enough for rpool. Some guys use only 32GB for rpool. The rest 
part of HDD is for your data.
Brogyi

2014.10.21. 21:25 keltezéssel, Dominik Hassler írta:
> 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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