Category Archives: Openstorage

Nexenta: Convert syspool to AHCI drivers

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Ronny Egner

When using Nexenta it is highly recommended to attach the syspool disks via AHCI instead of SATA. Attaching them via SATA might cause I/O errors leading to complete outages. The only way to solve this is to replace the driver … Continue reading →

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Building a custom and cheap storage server yourself – Part III

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Ronny Egner

This is part III of my most recent project named “Building a custom and cheap storage server yourself”. Part I can be found here and Part II here. Part II left with a current status of a crashing machine during … Continue reading →

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Building a custom and cheap storage server yourself – Part II

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Ronny Egner

It´s been a few months since posting the idea of building a custom made storage system in my blog. During this time we convinced people to give our idea a try, did some minor changes to the box layout and … Continue reading →

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Building a custom and cheap storage server yourself

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Recently i came across a project where they built their own cheap storage. The whole story is documented here and here. A colleague of me and i saw this project and wondered if this kind of storage could be used … Continue reading →

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