With the release of V10 I'm curious to play with ZFS again.
I have a large stash of 846 and 836 chassis and a huge surplus of X8 gear.
I'm thinking I want to setup an 846 with 8x4TB and 4-8 600GB 15k's I have. the 15k's will be VM stuff, the number varies has to do with how many SSD's I need to put into the hot swaps.
the 846's DO have 2x 2.5 internal (not hot swap, but this is a home box anyway)
I'll probably use one of the X8DTN+ with dual internal USB A (mirror the boot) 18DIMMs (i hear ZFS is a ram hog, I have piles of 4GB dimms)
The question I have though, is how much compute power do I actually need? Should I toss in any old L5520 I find or should I put in some nicer E5640's?
Do I need both chips?
HT quad seems like it would have ample power for a storage box, and the only reasons I can think I might want a second chip is for the 9 Dimms attached to it.... but that's also more power (not cheap in CA)
I have a large stash of 846 and 836 chassis and a huge surplus of X8 gear.
I'm thinking I want to setup an 846 with 8x4TB and 4-8 600GB 15k's I have. the 15k's will be VM stuff, the number varies has to do with how many SSD's I need to put into the hot swaps.
the 846's DO have 2x 2.5 internal (not hot swap, but this is a home box anyway)
I'll probably use one of the X8DTN+ with dual internal USB A (mirror the boot) 18DIMMs (i hear ZFS is a ram hog, I have piles of 4GB dimms)
The question I have though, is how much compute power do I actually need? Should I toss in any old L5520 I find or should I put in some nicer E5640's?
Do I need both chips?
HT quad seems like it would have ample power for a storage box, and the only reasons I can think I might want a second chip is for the 9 Dimms attached to it.... but that's also more power (not cheap in CA)