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A Caramel Breeze

ZFS Home Server
Sunday, August 31, 2008

Been busy, but now have some time to devote to the home server replacement.

Still keen on Opensolaris. Still looking at hardware.

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 - cheap and plenty fast enough, 64 bit, dual core.
Motherboard: still looking. Requirements:-
Storage: OS on old IDE drive. Initially 2 x 500GB SATA in a mirrored pool for storage. Will probably later add 2 x 1TG SATA when more storgae is required (and disks are cheaper).
Memory: 800MHz DDR2 - 2GB to start, expandable.
Graphics: no requirements - on-board or can use an old PCIe Nvidia 6200 for install.

posted by bj @ 9:24 pm, ,