recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

[Rick Macklem]

Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>Hi, all,
>
>> Am 18.08.2017 um 11:19 schrieb Pete French <petefrench at 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.
>
>They do support ECC, no problem.
>
>They are available with different CPU configurations from
>as Pete said remarkably cheap Celeron D based systems
>up to Xeon CPUs.
>
>If you want something that conserves power but still features
>8 cores, Supermicro has got a small 8-core Atom based
>system:
>https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028A-TN4.cfm
>
>I run this at home and I am really satisfied with it. ECC too, of course.
>Capable of running VMs in bhyve ...
>
>I'd suggest just using FreeNAS if you intend to build a file server.
>And of course you can always order a preconfigured FreeNAS
>mini from iX Systems.
I can't help with specific hardware recommendations (fortunately others already have),
but I will mention that "If you are going to get bit, it usually is related to the network
interface(s) on the machine.", due to net driver issues.

This shouldn't be a problem with an iX Systems box, since they test it with FreeNAS
(based on FreeBSD).

Maybe the folk that made hardware suggestions can post which net interface(s)
they are using and whether they are seeing driver issues?

Good luck with it, rick