My workstation is running opensolaris, the main reason for that was ZFS and I've been really happy with it so far and my data are still in good shape!
Workstation SPEC: 8G MEM (VM purpose) 6x1TB HD (storage) Quad Core Intel Q6600
I bought this hardware with storage and visualization in mind.
Ideally I should have 2 box, one NAS server, doing only this and nothing else, and a workstation running a more user friendly OS but I can't make up my mind, there are all my ideas, please guys tell me what you think. I want to avoid overkill.
Goal: - Dev platform - Multimedia - Virtualisation - Storage
1) Unbuntu on my working station and running opensolaris in a VM using raw disk and I should be able to import all my drive without losing data. And have a nice and friendly OS.
2) - Spending some money and put my disk in a cheap box and then only use it as a NAS
2b) - core i5 + 8G -> Running Opensolaris NAS + VM
3) - Spending even more money to get a core i5 and run ESXi on it, create a VM with opensolaris import all my disk.
I'm really looking forward for ideas!
Cheers!
