<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:5446B314.9020600@gmx.li" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>