On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 20:20 -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> I'm in the early stages of building an SD which will hold 8TB.
> 
> This is where you should start:
> 
>    http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/23/the-new-box-some-purchases/
> 
> Earlier: the hardware selection process
> 
> Later: some slight refinements.
> 
> Goal: A FreeBSD 8.x system with a ZFS filesystem on 5x2TB HDD.
> 
> Price: about $1800 I think.
> 
> I should be building it this weekend.
> 
> Yes: I could have built it cheaper.  The main goal: big and decently 
> reliable.
> 

I would double the ram (or more) if possible... zfs will love you for
it.



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