More pictures of my OpenSolaris-based Home NAS Box
To help more people read the article, I decide to post an English version of the article in a couple of days. Please stay tuned.
Here are more pictures of my Home NAS Box.
Picture 1: 2 of the 4 hot swappable SATA HDDs
Picture 2: WD Caviar Green 1TB SATA II HDD
Picture 3: Sil 3124 SATA Raid Card BIOS screen
Picture 4: OpenSolaris 2008.11 GRUB screen
Picture 5: Front view with 5 blue LEDs (4 for HDD, 1 for power)
Picture 6: OpenSolaris 2008.11 login screen
Picture 7: "prtdiag" output
Picture 8: Scanpci result
Picture 9: Yes, there is also a DVD drive
Picture 10: Power consumption when idle (49.4 Watt)
Picture 11: CPU temperature (measured as soon as case was open)
Picture 12: North bridge temperature
hello, your posting very interesting..
I want ZFS home NAS..
what is machine vendor?
thanks.
in Korea.
Posted by suk kim on December 10, 2008 at 10:38 AM CST #
So...
WD Caviar® Green™ 1Tb drives..
and ...
Intel® Desktop Board D945GCLF2 With Integrated Intel® Atom™ Processor
and ...
Chenbro ES34069
4 Hot-Swap HDDs Mini ITX Server Chassis
** BUT what Power Supply ?????????????
Thanks.
Stephen
Posted by Stephen on December 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM CST #
thank very much.
Let me introduce my self.
my name is suk kim.
I am Korea Solaris User Group chairman.
I want your posting our site to publish with permission.
Posted by suk kim on December 11, 2008 at 11:28 AM CST #
Stephen,
The external power supply comes with the chassis (see http://www.chenbro.com/assets/2008/04/16/gallery3946173215.jpg).
Suk Kim,
You have my permission to publish or translate the article. The English version is in progress and will be published here in a couple of days.
-Zhong
Posted by Zhong Wang on December 11, 2008 at 09:23 PM CST #
Hi Zhong,
May I know if you have changed any config in OpenSolaris to boot up in 64-bit. I 'm trying to setup a NAS using the D945GCLF2 with OpenSolaris 2008.11 but it detect it as 32-bit. I tried changing the config in menu.1st under grub but still does not help.
Thank/Regards,
Ryan
Posted by Ryan on December 24, 2008 at 09:42 AM CST #
Ryan,
That's weird. OpenSolaris 2008.11 will boot 64-bit mode on my D945GCLF2 board without any change of config. Have you tried to upgrade to the lastest BIOS/firmware?
Regards,
Zhong
Posted by 124.64.120.71 on December 27, 2008 at 08:43 PM CST #
Any feedback over the performance and reliability of this Atom-based server? I am thinking of embarking on the same project, and would appreciate your feedback before I do so.
Thanks.
William
Posted by William on February 14, 2009 at 10:09 PM CST #
I have the same board and similar sized case. The first OS I installed was FreeNAS 0.69.2 too bad it couldn't recognize gigabit lan, so i tried out the latest version, 0.7RC1. It detected the lan interface but i think there's a bug in with the driver as i try to configure network via DHCP it will raise "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode". So it seems like FreeNAS is not well suited for this board so I went looking around for an alternative OS and found this post. I'm going to give opensolaris a try although opensolaris is just a general server os, i should be able to get it do things FreeNAS does.
Posted by vio1ator on September 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM CST #