Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:33:23 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.se> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Hardware suggestions (ICH9R/G33/JMicron JMB363) Message-ID: <924875F9-E86A-4CD9-ACE3-7BA2A8FEDD3A@stromnet.se>
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Hi list I sent a similar mail to freebsd-hardware last week, not very much =20 response there though so i resent here with some more details.. Im about to build a new machine wich will mainly be used for offsite =20 backup. My plan is to run 7.0 and use ZFS on a number of regular SATA-=20= discs (some mixed I've already got and more to be bought later). Anyways, the suggested hardware list is the following right now: Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R, G33, 8x internal SATA (6x ICH9R + 2x on jmicron =20= JMB363 from what I can find on net, gigabyte themselfs call it =20 "Gigabyte SATA2") Intel Pro/1000PT PCIe Desktop Adapter 1000BaseT Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.67GHz 1333Mhz Socket LGA775, 4MB 2x1GB 1066MHz memory (another 2 1gb woudl give me max 4gb, but that =20 should realy be enough for a fileserver.. so no 2Gb sticks here, =20 cannot find any for pc8500 anyway) The mobo was featured on one of the mailinglists (dunno which it was) =20= a while back, it was said that it worked good. However there seems to =20= be some known problems? ICH9R and SATA ATAPI devices seems to work =20 poorly. Is this only ATAPI or is there any risk that this would =20 affect regular disks too? I realy dont want to have disk troubles =20 again, my history with ie nforce mobos and onboard controllers suck.. =20= If these problems absolutly only affects CD-drives (ATAPI) then I =20 realy dont care, but would be nice to know if there are any risk that =20= this affects disks too. (reference http://groups.google.com/group/=20 muc.lists.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/7ae0e00567961d26) The Intel network controllers should work good too right? =46rom list =20= history it sure looks that way.. For the ZFS part (maybee wrong list), I was thinking of going with =20 zmirrored vdevs (currently I got 6 disks, 3 pairs of different size/=20 model) in one big pool, and when adding capacity I will probably add =20 pairs of drives (new zmirrored vdevs in the zpool) Well, thanks for any opinions or suggestions! If you got any =20 recommendations about other similar mobos then I'm all ears! -- Johan Str=F6m Stromnet johan@stromnet.se http://www.stromnet.se/
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