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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    Out of curiosity I am interested to know what you do with your root drive. It seems a lot of people are going with USB sticks. I seem to be the only person who has jammed a fifth 3.5" disk into the chassis. I think a 2.5" notebook drive would be optimal, there appear to be metal work that may...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    Performance is about the same: [admin@SS4200 /mainarray/tmp]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mainarray/tmp/test bs=1m count=4000 4000+0 records in 4000+0 records out 4194304000 bytes transferred in 46.249658 secs (90688324 bytes/sec) [admin@SS4200 /mainarray/tmp]$ dd if=/mainarray/tmp/test...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    Here is the current dmesg of my SS4200 running FreeBSD 8.0 with the kernel that has the extended KVA_PAGES: Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    been months, time for an update I've had my SS4200 running for months on FreeBSD with ZFS so I believe an update is in order. Over the past few months thing have been running flawlessly. I still have the quad 1.5 terabyte seagate disks in SS4200. For the root disk I have a full size 3.5"...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    When you first posted I had intended to give it a try, I just never get around to it as my machine is doing something all the time and even when it's not, I don't turn it off. [admin@ ~]$ uptime 6:00PM up 41 days, 10:27, 1 user, load averages: 3.05, 1.52, 0.65 I will try to make the...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    Master One, did you ever install onto a PATA drive or were you installing onto USB flash drives the whole time? All of my work was done using a PATA drive (which btw, a 3.5" regular sized PATA drive fits beautifully inside the case). Perhaps that is what is the problem? My SS4200 is still...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    ZFS on FreeBSD 7.1 I redid everything on the SS4200 again. This time using FreeBSD 7.1 and ZFS. I have messed around with volume managers before but ZFS really brings it to a new level. Apparently ZFS under FreeBSD 7 requires some tuning to make work right. Here is what I did, and...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    I do not understand how anybody uses the EMC stuff. It is unreliable (sometimes when you click on things and say apply, it doesn't take, it needs to be rebooted twice every so often, you have to hit upgrade six times to get it to upgrade to the latest version, etc.), slow (takes a full day or...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    Today I pulled the system apart again to try Linux to see if I would get any better performance. Sadly Ubuntu Server 8.10 and Fedora 10 both do not boot on the SS4200 if you wish to use a PATA device as the root. You can install with the OS on one of the four SATA drives or you can disable all...
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    Intel SS4200 running FreeBSD 7.1 with 4 x 1.5 TB seagate drives

    I just bought an Intel SS4200-E. I found the built in EMC software to be lacking (fails in odd ways, needs to be rebooted twice some times, upgrades sometimes don't take, factory reset brings it back to the original version it came with and then it cannot be upgraded again without work, console...
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