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Has additional SLI power connectors which I don’t use.
- Power Supply: Enermax ELT500AWT Liberty 500W SLI: Not cheap, but is a high quality, rock solid, stable and efficient power supply, modular so you attach as many supplied cables as you need for drive power to 4-pin molex & SATA power connectors.
- All drives have silicone rubber grommets to absorb drive vibrations and prevent transmission to case chassis, making a really quiet machine.
Inside, there is a 4 x 3.5″ drive bay that has its own wind tunnel chamber for efficient cooling of the 4 drives.
- Case: Antec P182: Not the cheapest case, but is superb quality, really quiet, has Antec TriCool fans, lockable front door (kid proof), front has 2 x USB2, 1 x Firewire 400 and audio ports.
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Let’s just run through the component list: I did tests with 2GB of RAM and it worked well, but as RAM is so cheap, I splashed out on 4GB of RAM to ensure I created a 100% kickass fileserver, where I can throw around vast amounts of data, especially video, without the machine sweating too much □ ZFS works best with a 64-bit processor and lots of RAM, the more the better, apparently. It’s incredible that this marketing swindle is allowed to continue, where you always lose a substantial amount of space compared to the amount quoted on the case and in the advertised specs - where is the European Commission on this one, I wonder? I mean, you buy a 750GB disk and end up with 692GB - what a con!
So this choice of components gave a very quiet fileserver, about 1.4 TB of redundant data storage: 2 disks of ~692GB = ~1.4TB for data, plus 1 disk of ~692GB for parity data. Here’s an image that shows the design brief/constraints that were important to me (click it to view it full size) :įinally, here is the list of components I finally chose and their prices in Europe around mid-January 2008: After deciding that I would use Sun Solaris and its ZFS file system as the foundation for a home fileserver, the next part was to select compatible hardware, as Solaris has fairly limited driver support for hardware.Īfter hunting around on the internet and the Sun Solaris Hardware Compatibility List, I decided on some hardware to make a Solaris/ZFS-based fileserver.