hardware for home use large storage

[Daniel O'Connor]

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:
>
>     1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)
>     2. SuperMicro 5046A $750 (+$43 shipping)
>     3. LSI SAS 3081E-R $235
>     4. SATA cables $60
>     5. Crucial 3×2G ECC DDR3-1333 $191 (+ $6 shipping)
>     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 
including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc..

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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